Professor Lee Miles received funding from the UK's Global Research Challenges Fund (GCRF) under the auspices of Driving African Capacity-Building in Disaster Management (AFRICAB) Research Project, ...

There are a variety of techniques and tools that agencies can use to get the most out of the time and money they spend testing their emergency management systems. FEMA State and Local With fears that ...

For workers, safety drills are often an opportunity to step out for a moment and gain a minute of respite in an otherwise busy day. But for the safety officers in charge of organizing and executing ...

I’m reading the book Nudge: The Final Edition, which is about how to motivate people to act in certain ways, both for good or evil. Nudging them to make the right choices. The topic I’m reading about ...

This story is republished from Grist. Read the original article. As thousands waited on federal government assistance after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans residents came up with their own ...

The disaster revealed important shortcomings in Haiti's overall national disaster risk management system. After the January 2010 earthquake, reducing vulnerability, improving emergency preparedness ...

Disaster Management Systems announced a line of solutions for nursing homes and long-term care facilities to meet Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services standards. This includes a patient evacuation ...

Though the number of disasters rose, officials said the death toll decreased nearly threefold from 1970 to 2019, due to improved early warnings and disaster management systems Joelle Goldstein is a ...

When you’re having an emergency, both the speed and efficiency of medical first responders can make a difference in saving a life. But Connecticut’s patchwork of ambulance response systems and ...

SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) has announced that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has selected advanced disaster risk management system EDiSON for use in the Solomon ...

MARTINEZ – Across the Bay Area, county officials responsible for emergency planning are bracing for the economic aftershocks should President Donald Trump make good on promises to eliminate the ...