No matter where you live, no household should be without an emergency first-aid kit like this one. Packed into a neat carry ...

Preparedness is personal, and it exists on a broad spectrum. For some people, it's tied to a season—hurricane season in the South or wildfire season in the West. In some communities, you have folks ...

Despite the regulatory requirements placed on safety training and emergency preparedness in the workplace, many employers still fall short of setting their workers up for success. Providing staff with ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was most people’s introduction to the critical importance of hospital emergency preparedness. However, while it is strikingly clear that prolonged surges of patients occur during ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

I shared a podcast by the same name as this blog post two days after Christmas when everyone was home recovering from too much eggnog. Now that my International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services may soon intensify its reform agenda focus on emergency planning, one of many areas targeted in President Biden’s 21-point nursing home plan unveiled ...

The Vintner's Collective building in downtown Napa, Calif., was severely damaged by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in 2014. (Eilis Maynard/FEMA) Even if you have renters insurance or homeowners insurance, ...

Last Tuesday I attended a meeting of the Redwood Coast Tsunami Work Group (RCTWG). Founded in July 1996, the RCTWG is a mostly voluntary group of representatives from the three North Coast California ...

We don’t know where or when the next emergency will strike. But one thing is certain: we must be prepared. Emergency preparedness is vital for UNHCR to be able to respond quickly and reliably to ...