While healthcare systems universally complete an HVA, a CMS requirement, the HVA alone does not define what the system must be able to do. FEMA’s Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment ...

Across the United States, communities are experiencing storms, heatwaves, floods, and wildfires at a frequency and intensity once unimaginable. At the same time, aging infrastructure, overburdened ...

Purdue University’s Integrated Emergency Management Plan (IEMP) uses a management system widely known as the Incident Command System (ICS). The ICS provides an organizational structure capable of ...

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 ...

First responders did their jobs. Now city leadership must do more to prepare for the next crisis.

Fueled by ferocious Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions, the Palisades and Eaton wildfires erupted on January 7th and roared across the city and county of Los Angeles, killing 29 people and ...

(TNS) — The Huron County Emergency Management Agency, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA), will conduct a test utilizing ...

Starting on Wednesday, the University of Missouri System Office of Emergency Management is providing free emergency preparedness training sessions for the public. The trainings include topics like how ...

Victoria County Commissioners approved a new emergency notification system for the Victoria Office of Emergency Management.

The University of Rhode Island has launched a new emergency notification system designed to instantly alert students, staff ...

Acting city Emergency Management Director Jennifer Walter spoke Monday about the city’s new notification system, HNL Alerts, during a news conference at the Honolulu Emergency Operations Center.