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The real burden of risk

Emergency Planning

Before I travel on university business I am required to fill in a complicated on-line form called a risk assessment. By and large, Japan is a very safe country in which to travel and sojourn. When I travel from north London to my university I use public transport, which is of variable reliability.

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NFPA 610 Is Ready to Roll for the 2023 US Rally Racing Season

National Fire Protection Association

As you can see, rally racing is markedly different from track racing, and three important characteristics introduce special challenges for emergency planning, training, personnel, and equipment. At the completion of each segment, the team travels to the next segment over public or private roads, obeying all local laws.

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

Hurricane Lee is expected to gain strength as it travels toward the Caribbean and Bahamas at the end of the week. Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall last week as a Category 3 storm, caused significant damage across parts of the southeastern United States, most notably in Florida’s Gulf Coast, and parts of Georgia, and South Carolina.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Sectors such as travel, hospitality, tourism, retail, the arts and entertainment will suffer closures and reorganisations. Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic. Planning is more a process than an outcome. They will need a constant supply of adequate personal protective equipment.

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For New Research Students: How to Stop Floundering

Emergency Planning

resources: what can be afforded, for example regarding travel and equipment? Designing a research project is rather like that. The variables are:- time: how long will the project last and when are the deadlines? size: how big can (or should) the data set be? significance: what makes this worthwhile? content: what am I trying to do?

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The Vajont Dam Disaster, Sixty Years On

Emergency Planning

On 9th October 1963, at 22:39 local time, a 240 million cubic metre landslide dashed into the reservoir from the flanks of Mount Toc, travelling at about 100 km/hr. Various measures were taken to monitor and control slope stability, but they proved ineffective. The mechanism of the Vajont landslide has been vigorously debated ever since.

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La Romantica

Emergency Planning

They travel eastwards across the region to Policoro on the Ionian Sea coast, where they have been invited to play at one of those summer festivals that small towns in the South always have. In their ignorance, our modern travellers take the southern route around this picturesque body of water.

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