HARRISBURG, PA — Pennsylvania officials say thousands of hours of training and expanded interstate disaster response efforts ...
[Photo: An aerial view of a house in Gilchrist, Texas, that survived the destruction of Hurricane Ike in September 2008. Courtesy of Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA.] Natural disasters are becoming more ...
The following is a guest post from Scott Cormier, VP of Emergency Management, Environment of Care and Safety at Medxcel Facilities Management. Natural disasters cause nearly 500 deaths annually in the ...
As we wade into another year, with COVID still around and more disasters lurking, let’s think about how we engage the next generation of emergency managers. What do we need to teach them? How do we ...
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 ...
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 ...
Emergency Management (EM) Practitioners and Academicians have been investigating key elements to professionalize and standardize the EM career field for over twenty years. This paper presents findings ...
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 ...
The NSW Government provides a range of training programs on emergency management, with face-to-face programs facilitated by the NSW Police Force's Regional Emergency Management Officers (REMOs).