Uniform training and protocols will ensure everyone will know how to respond appropriately to a gunman.
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Follow NFPA-1600 When Developing Your Emergency Management Program
Doing so can reduce your exposure to lawsuits.
Emergency Management Apps: A Primer
Here are the resources that are currently available for emergency managers to use in their jobs, improve personal preparedness, monitor rapidly evolving incidents and provide linkage to disaster readiness applications for their communities.
Emergency Managers Earn Their Keep
The cost benefit has been estimated to be $4-$11 for every dollar spent, but what price can you put on saving human lives?
Don’t Accept Mediocrity in Your Emergency Management Program
Let’s quit playing games with the structure of campus emergency management and demand accountability.
My Experience Developing Saudi Campus Emergency Management Programs
All disasters are local, no matter where you live in this world.
Is There a Gap in Your Mass Notification System Plan?
Check with your cell providers to make sure they aren’t blocking your SMS/text alerts.
EOC Renovation Improves UCLA’s Earthquake Preparedness
A recent full-scale earthquake exercise highlighted the need for this West Coast university to update its emergency operations center. Here are the developments and tools campus officials used to determine what they required.
You’ve Just Lost Your Top Emergency Management Employee. Now What?
Departments must be prepared for when important members of their teams leave.
The Challenges of Tracking Potentially Dangerous People
With the Tucson, Ariz., shootings, the nation was once again witness to a mass homicide that had connections to an Institution of Higher Education (IHE).
Mass Notification Lessons Learned from Virginia Tech
U.S. Department of Education report highlights new precedents that campuses must consider.
Incorporate CAP to Improve Emergency Messaging Performance
Here’s how UCLA applies this standard for effective emergency alerting.