Emergency Management Articles
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The dominance of mechanistic behaviour: a critical study of emergency exercises
In this paper, the focus is on emergency exercises between the police, rescue services and ambulance. By practising, it is assumed that the conditions improve for a quick normalisation after an incident. The purpose of this paper is to identify whether the exercises are designed after organic action logic and therefore can be assumed to strengthen the ability to handle emergencies. Data have been ...
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Locating suppliers in peace and disaster time with uncertain demand and traffic
In emergency supply chain for disaster relief, as a commercial entity, to guarantee the quality of service, the supplier needs to satisfy the uncertain demand for its customers in peace time, and cope with the uncertain demand and traffic in disaster time. To coordinate the deployment problems of the suppliers in peace and disaster time, a two–stage stochastic location model is proposed to cope ...
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Data mining and machine learning in the context of disaster and crisis management
Disaster and crisis situations are characterised by high dynamics and complexity with human lives and substantial environmental and economic consequences at stake. The advances in information technology have had a profound impact on disaster management by making unprecedented volumes of data available to the decision makers. This has resulted in new challenges related to the effective management ...
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Mass evacuation of the 2010 Merapi eruption
The last eruption of Merapi volcano occurred from October until December 2010. The existing contingency and evacuation plans were only able to handle the crisis from 26 October, 2010 until 3 November, 2010. By 3 November, 2010, the contingency and evacuation plans were no longer used. The authorities decided to move the refugee camps 15 km away from the summit instead of the initial 10 km. The ...
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J.M. Huber Corporation Relies on 3E Company to Author Compliant Multiple-language MSDSs
Background J.M. Huber Corporation is a diversified, multinational supplier of engineered materials, natural resources and technology-based services to customers spanning many industries, from paper and energy to plastics and construction. One of the largest family-owned companies in America, Huber is built on a tradition of strong customer relationships, high ethical standards and technology ...
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Costco Bulks Up Compliance Program with 3E
Background Costco Wholesale Corporation operates an international chain of membership warehouse stores, mainly under the ""Costco Wholesale"" name, that carry quality, brand name merchandise at substantially lower prices than typically found at conventional wholesale or retail sources. As of March 2004, Costco operates 319 warehouses in 38 U.S. states and Puerto Rico with more than 78,000 ...
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3E Company`s MSDS On Demand Program has the Right Ingredients for PJ Food Service at Papa John`s International, Inc.
Background Papa John’s is a leading pizza restaurant chain, with 3,500 locations in all 50 states and 29 countries. To ensure quality and consistency across all their locations, Papa John’s depends on its subsidiary PJ Food Service, which supplies all restaurants with everything from pizza dough to cleaning supplies. Deb Vessels, Safety Coordinator at Papa John’s, manages ...
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America West Airlines On Board with 3E Compliance Management Services
Background In a time when most airlines are struggling with the sluggish economy and decreased passenger demand, America West has seen steady growth. With operational hubs in Phoenix and Las Vegas, the airline has expanded its route system to 93 destinations, including four in Canada and 12 in Mexico, and has become the second largest low-fare carrier in the U.S. America West has more than ...
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BJ’s Wholesale Club Stocks up on 3E’s Environmental Regulatory Compliance Solutions
Background Headquartered in Westborough, MA, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc. is a leading operator of membership warehouse club stores in the Eastern United States. The Company currently operates over 200 clubs in 15 states from Maine to Florida and employs more than 25,000 team members. Challenges As a large retailer, BJ’s faces many unique safety and environmental compliance ...
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Southwest Airlines’ Compliance Management Soars with 3E
Southwest Airlines aims to use its 436 (and growing) colorful planes to safely move over 70 million Customers and 288 million pounds of cargo annually. That cargo and Customer baggage can contain all types of materials in them including clothing, paperwork, birthday presents, food stuffs and many other commercial products. Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT) are not allowed on Southwest Airlines (with ...
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Building code modifications for enhanced resiliency
Enhanced resilience should be a key component for buildings located in disaster prone areas to minimise negative environmental impacts, and facilitate security and community continuity. The primary emphasis of current building codes is to provide minimum levels of life safety. Thus, for hurricanes, floods, storm surges, wildland fires and other events where evacuation can be managed in a timely ...
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Compliance Corner - Record retention
In the course of a dangerous good shipment, a shipper’s declaration is created and needs to be stored as it contains information used to protect the safety of individuals, businesses and the environment. This shipping paper must be maintained for a given period of time depending on the method of shipment. There are also similar record retention requirements for dangerous good training ...
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4 Ways the Green Climate Fund Can Make Its Investments Count
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has big ambitions: It aspires to become the main global fund for providing climate change finance, contributing to activities like the design of resilient cities and the expansion of low-emission power generation. However, it faces crucial questions about how it will allocate its funds to achieve its many mitigation and adaptation objectives, while avoiding the ...
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Does green energy help firm performance?
Environmental protection and sustainability is an emerging management topic. However, it is not easy for a for–profit firm to assign financial resources to sustainability, particularly when it hampers financial performance. We use Fortune 500 firms and examine the impact of participation in the green power partnership programme and using higher–priced clean energy on firm financial performance. ...
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Our Conical Cone Tanks Are Now WRAS Approved For Drinking Water Storage
When it comes to quality, Enduramaxx is there. And our cone tanks (conical tanks) are no exception. We are proud to announce that they have just been granted WRAS certification. The Water Regulation Authority Scheme approval means that these tanks are approved for the storage of emergency water for human consumption. This means our cone bottom tanks can be used for applications for storage of ...
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Incremental seismic rehabilitation concept for Romanian civil buildings integrated in natural hazards prevention management
A recent study in Bucharest emphasised the need to rehabilitate 392 vulnerable buildings, but when investing in seismic strengthening, the authorities are facing both financial and technical obstacles. For this reason the present paper is studying the possibility to use the incremental seismic rehabilitation (ISR) method to Romanian damaged and/or vulnerable buildings that present a higher risk ...
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Measuring the effectiveness of emergency management teams: scale development and validation
This paper is about the development and validity testing of a context–sensitive measure of the effectiveness of multidisciplinary emergency management teams that coordinate the multidisciplinary assistance on an incident scene. The scale can assist in future research, and serve as an instrument to evaluate team effectiveness during not only actual incidents but also emergency management exercises ...
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The FRANZ agreement: France's complex involvement in South Pacific regional cooperation on emergency management
In 1992, France, Australia and New Zealand decided to coordinate their emergency management efforts in the South Pacific through the FRANZ agreement to optimise their humanitarian assistance during disasters. The South Pacific is a complex area that requires regional cooperation. The FRANZ agreement provides a suitable framework for considering the political, economic and social difficulties that ...
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The use of emergency operations centres in local government emergency management
This paper presents exploratory research into how local government emergency operations centres (EOCs) are used during emergency management preparedness activities, through a questionnaire survey of 48 organisations from New Zealand, Canada, and USA. Analysis was framed by defining effective emergency management as a person–environment fit process in which both person (competence, response ...
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Building a new global search algorithm for managing the Chinese volunteer relief organisations
In this paper, we built a network of the Chinese volunteer organisations with the centrality measure and the shortest path method to define 61 volunteer organisations in 27 provinces of China, which can organise the spontaneous volunteers to participate in the disaster relief service more effectively and timely. And we also proposed a new global search algorithm to optimise the scheduling problem ...
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