I found this item in a Disaster-Resource.com email: Dr. Wayne Blanchard, of FEMA's Emergency Management Higher Education Project, convened a working group of emergency management practitioners and ...

Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

Moreover, mutual aid programs like the Emergency Management Assistance Compact rely on federal reimbursement. Without it, ...

In my last article, I focused on the use of NFPA 1600 in creating a solid foundation to build or improve an emergency management (EM) program. Although there are other guidelines that should be ...

The World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe has developed a free, downloadable hospital emergency response checklist. The tool, geared toward hospital administrators and managers, ...

What happens if the emergency responder wants to expand their skills to focus on preparedness, mitigation, or recovery? Perhaps it is time to consider a career shift to become an Emergency Manager.