Authors:Tom LaTourrette, D. J. Peterson, James T. Bartis,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: risks, health, personal, protection, needs, safety, views, emergency, responders, volume, community, protecting
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2003
ISBN-10: 083303295X
ISBN-13: 9780833032959

Firefighters, law enforcement officers, and emergency medical service responders play a critical role in protecting people and property in the event of fires, natural and man-made disasters, medical emergencies, terrorist and other criminal acts, and numerous other types of emergencies. The authors examine the hazards that emergency responders face and the personal protective technology needed to contend with those hazards. The findings are based on in-depth discussions with 190 members of the emergency responder community nationwide, including structural firefighters, emergency medical serv

Author: Brian A. Jackson
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: uncertain, terrorist, threat, approaches, balancing, prevention, resiliency, marrying
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833046322
ISBN-13: 9780833046321

The uncertain nature of the terrorist threat is a fundamental challenge in the design of counterterrorism policy. To deal with this uncertainty, the author recommends a capabilities-based, portfolio approach to terrorism prevention planning, drawing examples from aviation security policy. While traditional terrorism-prevention measures seek to prevent all damage by stopping them completely, mitigation and resiliency measures buy a lower, but more certain, payoff: preventing only some of the damage from attacks, but doing so predictably across the many different ways in which threats might beco

Authors:Henry H. Willis, Nicholas G. Castle, Elizabeth M.
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: guidelines, structural, collapse, events, equipment, protective, emergency, responders, volume, personal, protecting
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 0833039075
ISBN-13: 9780833039071

This monograph serves as a technical source for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) incident commander guidelines for emergency response immediately following large structural collapse events. It characterizes response activities and expected hazards, and develops guidelines for selecting appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). The partial or complete collapse of a multistory building creates an array of physical, chemical, and biological hazards. The most significant uncertainties are the composition and magnitude of the hazards present in the postcollapse e

Author: Henry Hazlitt
Publisher: Three Rivers Pre
Keywords: economics, understand, basic, way, shortest, one, lesson, surest
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1988-12-14
ISBN-10: 0517548232
ISBN-13: 9780517548233

A simple, straightforward analysis of economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. Excerpt The following is the Foreword by Steve Forbes. We have been inundated lately with a barrage of 50th anniversaries of important events--the dropping of the atomic bombs, Iwo Jima, VE and VJ days, Bretton Woods. And with this edition of Henry Hazlitt’s best-known work we commemorate another. Five decades have passed since the publication of a book on economics so powerful in its clarity and simplicity that we can declare, without question, it has sh

Authors:John Mendeloff, Christopher Nelson, Kilkon Ko, Am
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: exploratory, analysis, risk, fatality, businesses, workplace, small
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 083303944X
ISBN-13: 9780833039446

Over 55 percent of Americans are employed in businesses with fewer than 100 workers. Policymakers have taken action to lessen regulatory burden on small business. However, evidence shows that small establishments-single physical locations-have much higher rates of deaths or serious injuries than do larger establishments. This study examined the relationship between fatality rate and business size, both in terms of establishment size and firm size, from 1992 to 2001. The analysis uses fatality data drawn from Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) accident investigation reports an