Emergency Services Topics

Hazard Mitigation

HazardMitigation involves a complicated process of Preparing a community for a disaster, whether man-made or natural before the disaster takes place.

Fighting Terrorism

FightingTerrorism has been an important aspect in the daily lives of American citizens since 9/11. With the events of that fateful day, We as Americans have come face to face with the issue of Terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks, Americans have been forced to re-evaluate our understanding of domestic homeland security, and to seek new means of safeguarding it. The heroic response to those attacks-by firefighters, police officers, emergency personnel, and all Americans from all walks of life, has also provided a lesson in the importance of emergency preparation.

Confine Space Operations

ConfineSpaceOperations - according to OSHA Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations Plan 1910.124 (Permit-Required Confined Spaces), a Confine Space is a space with three features: Is large enough and configured so that an employee can bodily enter and prerform work. Has Limited or restricted means of entry or exit (for example, tanks, silos, storage bins, hoppers, vaults, trenches, and spaces created by structural collapse). Is not designed for continuous employee occupancy.

Trench Rescue Operations

TrenchRescueOperations construction is one of the most hazardous industries in the U.S., with excavation being one of the most hazardous types of construction work. The accident of special concern in excavation is a cave-in, the seperation of material from the side of the excavation into the excavation.

Incident Command System

The IncidentCommandSystem is a flexible, adaptable, stadardized, on-scene, all-hazard approach and effective method of organization of control requiring a number of major functions and multiagency or multijursidictional response to an incident no matter the size and scope of the incident itself.

-- SueMcGinnis - 22 Apr 2005