FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

Michigan State University Extension is inviting anyone interested in animal emergency disaster response to participate in an ...

Like all professions, emergency management has evolved throughout the years to become what it is today — a defined field of work that’s paving a career path for future employees. The modern concept of ...

Facility emergency response plans identify specific types of hazards, risks and circumstances that could harm people or the environment. They also document the tools and tactics that will be used to ...

Are you prepared to respond in the event of an emergency? Whatever form a situation takes—from natural disaster to infectious outbreak—it's most important that all students, faculty and staff are ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

Recognition of faith-based groups as vital cogs in emergency preparedness, response and recovery efforts is on the rise. In 2009, faith-based organizations were formally recognized on a national level ...

As emergency operations evolve, emergency operations centers (EOCs) are adopting cutting-edge technologies increasingly more to improve response times, resource allocation and decision-making during ...

Training in disaster risk management was delivered to 127 ministry officials and 1,520 beneficiaries. Risk assessment capacity was improved by generating key risk data using earth observation, remote ...