As wildfire risks grow nationwide, NFPA’s 2026 Wildfire Community Preparedness Day funding highlights the increasing overlap between community resilience and occupational safety responsibilities.

EHS professionals are aware of the most common gaps in their emergency evacuation plans, such as insufficient employee training, lack of appropriate equipment and low employee engagement. But there’s ...

WalletHub released a report that sought to identify the safest states in the US. It ranked every state by safety, using indicators such as work safety and emergency preparedness. Louisiana came in ...

When the world tilts – when storms surge, fires rage, or systems fail – people don’t turn to politics for help. They turn to us. The men and women who show up when everything else is breaking down. We ...

Emergency Management (EM) Practitioners and Academicians have been investigating key elements to professionalize and standardize the EM career field for over twenty years. This paper presents findings ...

A legislative committee that monitors California’s emergency management policies has a new member — and it’s someone with decades of experience in firefighting. Editor’s note: Sacramento Snapshot is a ...

In the middle of May, a rare, severe dust storm swept across the dry farmland of Central Illinois and headed in the direction of Chicago. Driver visibility on roads dropped to zero, and wind speeds ...

For months, President Donald Trump threatened to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency, arguing that it is “extremely expensive” and that emergency management should be left to the states.

An annual outreach effort to help provide emergency preparedness information about Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) is now ...