NIMS compliance means more than just referencing NIMS in documents. Organizations should review the latest publication NIMS Implementation for Healthcare Organizations Guidance January 2015 put out by ASPR and HPP. Organizations can [...]
I was reading an article in Business Insider about the challenges natural disasters create for many businesses. One in four small to medium sized businesses will not reopen after a [...]
My first thought after I saw Why Would You Build a Hospital in a Tsunami Zone was "who would knowingly build a critical facility in a inundation zone?" As I [...]
When people are put under stress they fall back on one of two things; experience or training. Make 2015 the year that your organization offers current, relevant and engaging training [...]
In a perfect world police are there to handle criminal acts, fire fighters available to perform rescues, and EMS personnel close at hand to apply life-saving interventions. Unfortunately, that is [...]
Both the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) and a Myocardial Infarction (MI) are managed by addressing key objectives. In fact I think they use the same prioritize activities identically. Read [...]
A recently published paper claims that the gender of the name given to individual hurricanes is linked to the public's perception of the risk posed by that storm. In short, [...]
I once thought that a disturbed ants nest was a great example of high entropy. It's not. Don't believe me? Go kick a fire ant nest and stand there. A [...]
A mud slide in Washington State kills 30. A plane disappears with 239 people on board. At Fort Hood, a disturbed man kills 3 people and injures 16 before taking [...]
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