Purdue University has incorporated major emergency planning programs into its Integrated Emergency Management Plan (IEMP). The plan considers all phases of emergency management operations in order to ...

Planning is one of the most common tasks that emergency managers undertake. It is a time-consuming process and can be more drawn out by the number of people and organizations who you engage with to ...

Benjamin Franklin once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” This is particularly true in business, where events that threaten a company’s operations and shareholder value can ...

Purdue University requires a Building Emergency Plan (BEP) to be completed and updated as needed for on-campus buildings occupied by ten or more people. The plans provide building-specific safety ...

Many articles are written about all of the disciplines in the public safety sector, and both fire operations and EMS have been the focus of many available journals. Yet, emergency management has been ...

Establishing a crisis management plan may seem overwhelming to school officials unsure of where to start. That’s why we broke the process down into manageable steps designed to help them take action.

Emergency Management, whether conceived as a management system or an operational unit of government, should not be in the ‘business’ of managing global pandemics. While pandemics are certainly ...

As an emergency medicine physician and director of emergency management, I have taken part in disaster and humanitarian responses in Sri Lanka after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, in Haiti ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) - Palm Springs now has an updated comprehensive Emergency Operations Plan that city leaders say reinforces the city's commitment and approach to public safety, disaster ...