The requirement that each Fire and Rescue Service in the United Kingdom UK should develop an Integrated Risk Management Plan IRMP was first proposed by Professor Sir George Bain in his report entitled "The Future of the Fire Service: Reducing Risk - Saving Lives," published in December 2002 and commissioned...
This article discusses both internal and external benchmarking and how these strategies can be employed to help a public entity identify key program cost drivers and evaluate and refine loss prevention and risk management programs and procedures. Benchmarking is a tool public entities use to make more informed decisions regarding...
The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the international dimension of emergency management, particularly as it relates to information sharing, integration, and interoperability. It discusses a number of challenges and frames the activities of different stakeholders and sectors, emphasizing the need for connectivity, seamless exchanges, and widespread...
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...
Discrimination and harassment are costly to an organization – and to each person in it – so the focus must always be the prevention of risk and wrongdoing. However, once a problem arises, an organization must act with no tolerance for such wrongdoing, maintaining proactive observation and communication along with...
Our tools and techniques for hazard assessment and disaster management come into question when we consider the paradox of concurrent and prodigious increases in property losses as well as in research related to natural hazards. In view of this developing paradox, the call for an International System Model in Emergency...
The use of the latest information and communications technology has expanded rapidly within crisis response organizations. Naturally, each individual organization uses whatever system it has previously adopted in order to carry out its mandate in the field. Collectively, however, this has resulted in interoperability problems. Current systems used by civilian...
Government and insurance industry statistics consistently suggest that more than half of disaster-victimized businesses either never reopen or fail after reopening. A substantial percentage of these failures are small businesses. It has become increasingly evident that disaster-related business failures have a dramatic and long-term impact on communities. Article illustrates the...
The Internet is a viable approach to link the disaster management world together and communicate the disaster preparedness and prevention message to practitioners and the masses. The Internet has come into its own as the communication and commerce means envisioned and anticipated by its earliest proponents. Information is power and...
From the executive summary: ‘All politics is said to be local, and in important ways knowledge is local as well. In managing knowledge about accident precursors, organizations must attend to the local nature of problems and the knowledge that must be brought to bear to address them, as well as...
Emergency management is considered a complex and difficult process. In truth, it is a simple process engaged in by all individuals, groups and communities. Coordinated emergency response can also be a simple process, so long as communities capitalize on common ground. Emergency management is a continuous process by which all...
"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...
"Terrorism is a multi-faceted problem: It’s a police problem, a military problem, a public safety problem, a political problem, and a public policy problem. As we have learned, international terrorist groups have a support infrastructure within the United States, giving them the capability to attack us virtually anywhere they choose...
This article gives some historical perspective to the current hard market, helps understand the cyclical nature of the insurance market, and suggests steps that small companies, public entities and nonprofit organizations may employ to prepare for and weather the hard market. Steps being taken to improve underwriting results and profitability...
The primary purpose of this resource is to provide small public entities with a user-friendly process to identify and analyze their risks on an enterprise wide basis. The author has included forms and potential loss and impact summaries that may help make the risk identification and analysis process more easily...
Collaboration Includes Metrics-Driven Workshops Nationwide SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Bickmore Risk Services & Consulting BRS, one of the largest and fastest growing independent risk management consulting firms in the US, announced today it is collaborating with the Public Entity Risk Institute PERI, a leading nonprofit research institute focused on...
Convenience Contract with Texas Department of Information Resources Gives Power of SAS([R]) to Lone Star State CARY, N.C. -- A convenience contract with SAS will simplify the procurement of SAS([R]) software for all government and education organizations in Texas. The agreement between SAS, the leader in business intelligence...
The economy is at risk and corporations and individual borrowers are in a liquidity crisis because banks are reluctant to lend as a result of their own irresponsible residential and commercial real estate lending practices and excessive credit card exposure and a criminal failure of oversight by the Federal Reserve...
'Government Controlled Entities Masquerading as Independent Public Companies' NEW YORK -- Major publicly-traded Chinese companies whose American Depository Shares ADSs are traded on the New York Stock Exchange NYSE have very poor quality of earnings, inadequate corporate governance standards, and serious accounting related issues, according to a comprehensive...
CHANTILLY, Va. -- AMERICAN SYSTEMS, a government IT solutions provider and one of the top 100 employee-owned companies in the U.S., today announced that the Institute for Defense and Homeland Security IDHS has selected the company to develop and demonstrate its Red Cell solution, a rapid, geographically precise risk alert...
Articles 2007-08-06
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