In the wake of disasters like Nepal’s earthquake, proactive efforts provide a significant return on investment when reacting to the extraordinary challenges of response and recovery; they reduce the demand for reactive resources in environments rife with life safety constraints and limitations.

Some Minnesota lawmakers and railroad safety advocates are concerned that new disaster plans are not being released to the public.
 

Only half of employees believe their workplaces are prepared for a severe emergency, according to the third annual workplace safety survey by Staples, Inc.

More than 6.6 million homes on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of hurricane storm surge inundation.

Storm surge and rainfall flooding combined for 75 percent of all deaths in the U.S. from hurricanes, tropical storms or tropical depressions from 1963 to 2012.
 

Los Angeles became the first city in the nation to approve seismic standards for new cellphone towers.

 There are 30 tornado shelters all along the Kansas Turnpike. 

Federal regulators have cleared three of the nation’s largest property insurers to use unmanned aircraft to inspect ofrom hail-damaged roofs to collapsed buildings to flooded neighborhoods.