An employee complains of chest pains. A delivery truck backs into the gas meter, and a strong odor of gas invades the building. A “suspici...

Hurricane season begins on June 1 and forecasters predict an “average” or “near normal” season. Fewer hurricanes, however, do not necessari...

National standards, such as NFPA 1600, provide the criteria for developing, implementing, and evaluating an emergency management and busines...

The Federal Emergency Agency has just published "Continity Guidance Circular 1" (CGC 1) with subtitle "Continuity Guidance fo...

The Department of Homeland Security has posted a Federal Register notice seeking public comments about the Voluntary Private Sector Prepared...

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 I was asked to coauthor a book to provide guidance to the private sector on the subject o...

Title IX of Public Law 110-53 (“Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007”) requires the U.S. Department of Homeland ...

As reported in the Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC) INFOGRAM 37-08, September 25, 2008: ...

An interesting survey was published by the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public H...

I recently updated the " Resources " within the Preparedness, LLC website . It includes more than five printable pages of referenc...

From the Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center, INFOGRAM 35-08 September 11, 2008: “Various State Fusion...

The list of disaster preparedness standards is growing longer: "The Brussels Management Centre of CEN, the European Committee for Stan...

September is National Preparedness Month, and I provide some information from the Ready Business Fact Sheet. A national survey of businesses...