Verticle Evacuation – Best Uses?
As an Incident Commander I would call vertical evacuation a strategy if my objective was determined to be "provide for the immediate safety of coastal residents after a strong offshore [...]
12 Ways To Make a Better Emergency in 2012
Over the next twelve months, I will look at 12 predictable events and their inherent problems and offer potential solutions. We tend to have a habit of acting surprised when [...]
New Disaster Mitigation Game
This game can give Emergency Managers and Planners new tools to help educate with.
What is the Responsible Thing to Do When You Know Disaster Looms?
Some disasters are slow evolving such as hurricanes which are tracked well before landfall. Others happen with devastating suddenness such as the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan earlier this [...]
Should the seasonal flu shot be mandatory for health care workers and those identified as holding key positions with an organization?
The facts are hard to deny regarding the benefits of receiving the seasonal flu shot, and the reasonable arguments against it are few. If Emergency Management is trying to mitigate [...]
What Have You Personally Experienced As a Result of the Focus on Terrorism Since September 11, 2001?
I asked the question: "Are we better prepared post September 11, 2001?" We discussed "Are we safer, both here in the United States, and since we declared a global war [...]
Unpreparedness for hospitals now has a clear cost which may change the perceived value of hospital Emergency Management programs.
This settlement sends a message and sets a clear precedent on how future performance of hospitals during disasters will be judged. In conducting the cost benefit assessment of disaster preparedness, [...]
Money and technology without sustained training to improve critical thinking skills and change behavior is money poorly spent.
A recent story about the deaths of a woman and injury to others points out the gaps that remain after untold billions of dollars spent on response to terrorism programs. [...]
They Just Figured Out New York on September 11th is a Credible Target? Are You Kidding Me?
With all the pontificating about having thwarted all kinds of terrors attacks in and past ten years at massive cost, why now the sudden disclosure of a credible threat? Why [...]
This Time Called Life
I’d like to pose a two part question. Part one, if tomorrow was that last day of your life, what would you choose to do? Would it be spent [...]