Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

In the dim pre-COVID past, I wrote an article detailing what we at the Idaho Office of School Safety and Security consider the foundational elements for K-12 school safety: effective communications, a ...

In an era where safety concerns have become an unavoidable reality, schools must prioritize robust and comprehensive emergency response plans. From natural disasters to security threats, these ...

Heavy industry and inherently hazardous work often happens in locations far from conventional emergency response, including construction, mining, oil and gas drilling, and even some scientific and ...

It's Monday morning, 6 a.m. The employees of ABC Co. have just punched in, and the sound of machines starting up fills the air. The delivery log shows that a bulk shipment of sulfuric acid arrived ...

Prevention/mitigation operations are intended to eliminate hazards and vulnerabilities, reduce the probability of hazards and vulnerabilities causing an emergency situation, or lessen the consequences ...

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TYNGSBORO — A snowy, rainy night might have kept some people away, but a group of nearly 20 potential volunteers came out — despite the driving conditions — to hear about an opportunity to help their ...

After the Uvalde school shooting, Texas lawmakers passed new laws expanding armed campus security, emergency response ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — First responders are getting trained on how to respond to accidents involving livestock at the Bovine Emergency Response Planning program. It’s a training that was initiated by a ...