Labelmaster, a manufacturer of regulatory compliance products, has announced it will be printing and distributing an updated 2008 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)--its first new edition since 2004--containing new information for first responders to use in the event of an incident involving hazardous materials.
The National Ski Patrol's 27,000 members represent 98 percent of the nation's patrollers. Craig Simson, assistant patrol director at Keystone Resort and one of the seven select members of the new NSP Safety Team, provided this photo.
NOAA's satellites are part of an international search and rescue system that made 353 rescues in the United States and its surround waters in 2007, up from 272 a year earlier. NOAA says it's time to switch to new beacons.
The data won't be used at this point for diagnosis or treatment, but the hope is for faster treatment of traumatic brain injuries someday.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled against the National Mining Association on Jan. 11 and in favor of MSHA's new standard requiring rescue oxygen devices in emergency escapeways.
The event will highlight the technology needs of police, fire, and emergency management personnel at all levels of government--in the United States and internationally.
President Steven Chabot said while the devices have "a solid track record for safety," more information and research are needed.
University of Minnesota Center for Drug Design and Minneapolis VA Medical Center researchers have published in the Dec. 27, 2007, issue of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, their discovery of a new fast-acting antidote to cyanide poisoning which they say has potential to save lives of those who are exposed to the chemical--namely firefighters, industrial workers, and victims of terrorist attacks.
The funding awards, announced Dec. 20, were part of the fiscal year 2007 Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program (CEDAP) for law enforcement and other emergency responder agencies.
The Teamsters and NEMSA stress their strengths and claim victories on the East and West Coasts.
The incident happened as workers were pouring cement at the sixth floor of a parking garage going up next to the second Berkman Plaza tower that is under construction next to the St. Johns River.
U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Ohio, will ntroduce legislation to expand access to AEDs in schools across the country.
When we talk about workplace exposures, it’s hard to conceive of a more varying and serious set of hazards than what first responders encounter. There are none more courageous and none more exposed to known and unknown industrial hygiene hazards in the regular course of their work than those who deal with front-line lifesaving.
Several groups will announce the program today, pledging to plan, train, and exercise together.
They spent a week in St. Petersburg, Russia, and finished with a full-day exercise.
The system speeds escape from underground mines such as Wharton, W.Va.'s Harris No. 1, a Holmes Safety award-winning Patriot Coal Corp. mine shown here.
Units manufactured between March 29 and Aug. 9, 2007, at a Beaverton, Ore., plant may have a defective capacitor on a circuit board that causes them to fail.
The half-day professional development conference will feature "The Man Who Predicted 9/11," a documentary about Rick Rescorla, former Morgan Stanley security chief at the World Trade Center who is credited with helping to save more than 2,700 lives on 9/11.
Almost 7 in 10 agencies answering a survey did not have a specific plan for responding to a mass-casualty event at a school.
DOL announced the grant Oct. 25, with $16.7 million released initially, to aid in efforts underway in response to the wildfires burning across much of southern California.