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- International Co-Operation in Oil Spill Response in European Waters (2004)
- It is often observed after large oil spills that there is pressure to review and change the oil spill prevention and emergency response system. The purpose of the following paper is to aid in the evaluation of response preparedness and available means in Europe. This is done by reviewing the...
- White papers 2004-07-09
- California's Summer 2004 Electricity Supply and Demand Outlook
- The California Energy Commission staff's electricity supply and demand outlook for summer 2004 indicates the need for close monitoring and the prudent use of electricity resources, particularly during periods of hotter than normal summer temperatures. While supplies are expected to be adequate under normal (1-in- year) weather, on very hot...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- At Risk: Has Your Emergency Response Plan Been Exercised?
- Many organizations have developed emergency response plans to prepare for natural, technological, or man-made disasters. Too often, however, exercising - a key element of the plan development process - is neglected or ignored. An emergency response plan that has not been exercised may fail during an emergency. Lack of understanding...
- White papers 2004-08-02
- An Integrating Framework for Modeling and Simulation for Emergency Response
- A number of modeling and simulation tools have been developed and more are being developed for emergency response applications. The tools do not attempt to address the overall emergency incident response. A set of tools that can help develop and evaluate coordination among plans for multiple aspects of the response...
- White papers 2004-09-14
- The Impact of Information Technology on Emergency Health Care Outcomes
- This paper analyzes the productivity of technology and job design in emergency response systems, or "911 systems." A potential benefit to E911 is improved timeliness of the emergency response. This paper measures productivity using an index of health status of cardiac patients at the time of ambulance arrival, where the...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- Emergency Response Management: What Can Business Process Management Provide?
- This paper discusses how business process management can play a significant role in the harmonic and timely activities of collaborative emergency response. By enforcing critical process steps it helps to remove dangerous uncertainties in the response process. It should be considered as a valuable aid and allay when pressure mounts...
- White papers 2003-09-23
- First Responders Unite: Improving Communications to Prevent or Handle Emergency Response Situations
- First responders - police officers, fire fighters, paramedics, border patrol and others are America's first line of attack in a terrorist situation. Unfortunately, one of the most significant lessons learned from 9/11 is that most first responders were unable to communicate with each other and other local, state and federal...
- White papers 2005-05-04
- Emergency Management Preparedness Standards: Overview and Options for Congress
- The report issued by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States identifies emergency response gaps evident after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The report includes three recommendations that focus on emergency response standards: the adoption and use of emergency response standards for incident command; mutual aid...
- White papers 2005-02-04
- Risk Communication for Sooner Spring and Beyond
- Risk Communicating with the public, the media and other health and emergency response organizations becomes a critical role during a confirmed or potential threat situation. Utilizing the tools of risk communication during a public health emergency will help local administrators communicate effectively the related risk to the public. The following...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Interim Emergency Response Plan
- The following plan characterizes areas of responsibility and outlines an administrative framework to respond to emergency situations. This plan is fashioned to facilitate rapid, professional and supportive response to campus emergencies and allows for the campus community to quickly adapt to events as they unfold. It should be understood that...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Emergency Response Management
- Business process management can play a significant role in the harmonic and timely activities of collaborative emergency response. By enforcing critical process steps it helps to remove dangerous uncertainties in the response process. It should be considered as a valuable aid and allay when pressure mounts on decision makers, not...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- At Risk: Business Survival During The Hurricane Season
- Before a storm hits, businesses need to consider pre-loss actions such as developing business continuity and crisis management plans, establishing internal and external communications procedures, putting in place and testing emergency response plans, assessing the resilience of the supply chain, instituting data back-up and recovery protocols, evaluating levels of insurance...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- At Risk: Conventions Expose Companies To Significant Risk
- Past weather-related closures, anti-war demonstrations, and other significant events, such as regional blackouts, provide some indication of the extent of possible business interruption during the conventions. Such incidents forced many executives to implement their business continuity and/or emergency response plans. The conventions might well cause the same or greater impact,...
- White papers 2004-06-16
- An Introduction To Fire Detection, Alarm, And Automatic Fire Sprinklers
- Cultural property management is entrusted with the responsibility of protecting and preserving an institution's buildings, collections, operations and occupants. One of the major steps is halting a fire by the following means: identify the incident, raise the occupant alarm, and then notify emergency response professionals. Fire protection experts generally agree...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Critical Incident Protocol The Emergency Response Phase
- Coordinating public and private responses to an emergency or critical incident is the culmination of risk assessment, critical incident planning, exercises, and mitigation. The effort put into planning will pay dividends and enhance management of a critical incident when it occurs. The true definition of a critical incident includes any...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Contingency Planning Beyond Y2k Merging Emergency Response And Business Continuity
- The first step in expanding business continuity planning is merging emergency response and business continuity plans into a seamless, coordinated effort. Most companies view emergency response programs as separate from business continuity. Each group independently develops its own plan. Yet, in reality, an event is going to trigger both plans...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Critical Elements of Disaster Recovery & Business/Service Continuity Plan
- The numerous community-wide disasters, as well as singular disasters that municipalities, institutions, businesses and government agencies have suffered in the last dozen or so years have shown us that planning for disaster recovery only is simply not enough. One must also plan beyond the emergency response phase for business and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Emergency Response Team Model: A Common Sense Approach
- Article explains that when a major disaster strikes a community, critical resources, emergency services, communications, transportation, and lifeline systems, are often overwhelmed. Neighborhoods and businesses are cut off from outside support. There may be restricted access of emergency response organizations into critically affected areas. Read on that effective response requires...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Enterprise - eervice Continuity
- Singular, isolated business or service disruptions as well as large-scale, community-wide disasters have shown us that a well designed and tested enterprise-wide recovery and continuity plan must be in place. Ensuring that an organization's assets, operations, commitments and relationships enterprise-wide protected is a critical element of staying in business. The...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- An All-Hazard Approach to Emergency Incident Response
- "Information sharing and inter-agency coordination is clearly needed to facilitate a successful emergency incident response. Yet many public and private organizations lack the comprehensive emergency response plans that define the roles and responsibilities of trained personnel responding to an unexpected incident, and describe how to work "side-by-side" with responders from...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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