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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Emergency Planning

We might further tie these concepts into the model of information dissemination propounded by Herman and Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent. However, we live in an age in which, increasingly, information is manufactured and thus so is reality, simply because people believe the information. Herman, E.S. Chomsky 1988.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

The term ‘civil protection system’ describes coordinated national, regional and local arrangements designed to plan for, manage and respond to major emergencies, and to initiate recovery from them. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

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The Hazard of Mixing Chemicals

National Fire Protection Association

What happens when incompatible mixtures combine at manufacturing or storage facilities? It all started when a waste company began pumping sludge out of a local plant. “ Information on incompatible materials can be found in safety data sheets or manufacturers’ product bulletins. A similar situation exists with flour.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Can we draw on expertise in the field of disaster risk management? Under such circumstances, disaster risk management is vitally important, especially as one is dealing with a medical emergency and a social, economic and psychological one. Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic.

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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Emergency management is still languishing in the doldrums in the United Kingdom.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Emergency Planning

are crises which have to be managed simultaneously at several levels, from international to local. However, this depends on whether companies manage to remain solvent during and after the crisis. It is important to ensure that emergency planning measures are balanced among society's and people's needs.

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