The U.S. Fire Administration's National Fire Academy has announced four Incident Command System (ICS) Simulation Series courses are now available through NFA Online.
The funds will be used in part for projects that provide retraining services for those who cannot return to work and humanitarian assistance for disaster victims, including work on the homes of individuals eligible for the federally funded weatherization program.
Cooper Lighting Inc., of Peachtree City, Ga., in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is voluntarily recalling approximately 9,000 of its "Sure-Lite" and "AtLite" Exit and Emergency Lights. Consumers should stop using the product immediately unless otherwise instructed.
OSHA announced yesterday that it has renewed its alliance with the American Red Cross and will continue to strive to improve employee awareness of safety and health issues in the workplace. The alliance focuses particularly on emergency preparedness, first aid, and disease prevention.
Stony Brook University Medical Center's Long Island World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program was awarded $9 million for its medical programs until mid-July 2009.
The recommendations pertain only to bombings and other mass-casualty events, the agency noted, and not to "routine" emergency responses.
Workplace safety professionals who want the ability to interact with each other more than just once a year at trade shows and conferences now have a new resource.
To help communities and businesses affected by the recent storms resume operations safely, the American Society of Safety Engineers is offering the following business resumption safety tips.
ASIS International has announced its intent to initiate development of two American National Standards: a business continuity management standard and a risk assessment standard.
The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency recently announced the release of the interim "Comprehensive Preparedness Guide 101: Producing Emergency Plans: A Guide for All-Hazard Operations Planning for State, Territorial, Local, and Tribal Governments."
A new set of construction guidelines will increase public safety for people evacuated to storm shelters and those who use safe rooms in their homes during hurricanes and tornados.
At the Sept. 17-23 International Code Council Final Action Hearing in Minneapolis, BOMA hopes to derail the required extra exit stairway for tallest buildings and an emergency responder radio coverage proposal.
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston professor Lex Frieden recently announced the launch of a Web site to help people with disabilities prepare for the 2008 hurricane season in the event they have to leave their homes or shelter in place.
As the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, the health care system in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast shows encouraging signs of recovery, reports a special August issue of The American Journal of the Medical Sciences.
The Department of Homeland Security announced today that it has signed an agreement with the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board to establish and oversee the development and implementation of the accreditation and certification requirements for the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program.
By 2013, 75 percent of all jurisdictions should be able to demonstrate response-level emergency communications within three hours of a significant event, it states.
"Yesterday's earthquake was a wake-up call--a reminder to us to make the important changes we need to survive the inevitable," said the U.S. Geological Survey's Dr. Lucy Jones, on Wednesday.
While there have been no reports of major damage or injuries in Los Angeles, San Diego, or Tijuana, some buildings in downtown Los Angeles reportedly swayed for several seconds, prompting some precautionary evacuations.
The Sept. 16 event in Washington, D.C., will focus on how communications furthers response by health care, responders, government, and industry.
Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the Gulf Coast, a new survey conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health Project on the Public and Biological Security shows that one-third (34 percent) of those affected by the storm report they are very prepared if a major hurricane were to strike their communities in the next six months.