Written by: Jessy Sears The National Incident Management System (NIMS) established by FEMA in 2004 includes the utilization of a standardized approach to managing critical incidents through the use of the Incident Command System (ICS). Essentially NIMS and the … read more

  Written by: Robin Hattersley-Gray The numbers from this year’s Campus Safety Access Control and Lockdown Survey have been crunched, and the May 2022 Robb Elementary School mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, appears to have prompted many K-12 schools to … read more

  August 31, 2022 • Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times   (TNS) – When lightning ignited the bone-dry foothills of the Sierra Nevada last year, forestry crews fanned out across Sequoia National Park to defend an ancient grove of California redwoods from … read more

  Written by: Amy Rock, Campus Safety News HOULTON, Maine — Houlton Regional Hospital established its own security force that patrols the grounds 24 hours a day. CEO Shawn Anderson said the decision was made about a year ago when … read more

  Written By: Katja Ridderbusch HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. — Ken Beyer can’t think of a day in the past few months when his phone didn’t flutter with calls, text messages, and emails from a police department, a sheriff’s office, … read more

  Written by: Hasan Karim, Springfield News-Sun, Ohio • August 10, 2022  (TNS) – Springfield police officers and firefighters conducted walk-throughs at several city school buildings on Tuesday as the district looks to improve the overall safety of faculty and students. … read more

  Written by: Mark J. Berger – August 10, 2022 It’s been a little over two months since the tragedy in Uvalde. I’m going to focus on my area of specialized knowledge and not comment on issues outside of this … read more

  We have all been there: you’re committed to picking up the kids, attending a ballgame or meeting with a teacher when disaster strikes and your role as emergency manager requires you to respond to the crisis. Now what? Do … read more

  August 17, 2022 • Dalia Faheid, Fort Worth Star-Telegram   (TNS) – Over the next 30 years, Texas and other parts of the central U.S. are at risk of being exposed to extreme heat — temperatures exceeding 125 degrees. That’s … read more

  Written by: Amy Rock In 2019, 20,870 workers in the private industry experienced trauma from workplace violence, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of those employees, 70% worked in the healthcare and social service industries. From 2020 to … read more