Improvements needed to safeguard vulnerable people facing natural and man made hazards.
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Category: emergency agency
Leave no-one behind – ethics of Warnings (Part three)
The United Nations has a phrase we all need to get used too: ”..leave no-one behind.” How important is that for emergency agencies issuing warnings? It’s a phrase heard frequently at UN meetings around the...
Read MoreAn ethical approach can improve Effective Warnings – but it’s often missing.
Recently I have had an opportunity to discuss with an NGO a forecast heavy rain event, and was reminded that many organisations, including civil society-based NGOs and local government still do not see ”saving lives”...
Read MoreHow do people want their emergency advice?
There is a great deal of focus at present on providing the right advice to the community before, during and after emergencies – in the right way, at the right time and in language and format people can understand, even in...
Read MorePresentations this week
Last week I visited the National Broadcasting Corporation of PNG to discuss with them some aspects of emergency broadcasting. (See here for a quick assessment of natural disaster threat in PNG. This week I will give a...
Read MoreTen years of “emergency broadcasting” in Victoria – now what?
My professional position is as the Manager of Emergency Broadcasting and Community Development for The Australian Broadcasting Corporation Local Radio division. It was my delight to be able to attend on Friday March 28 an event...
Read MoreDefining “emergency broadcasting”
In the past two weeks I have met a group of people from Germany and talked about the needs of some pacific island states regarding issuing warnings to their community. Issuing warnings in a repetitive way, with useful...
Read MoreAll I had was the radio – the need for radio when the power fails
Rachael Mead lives at Lobethal Road, Basket Range in the low hills outside Adelaide, in South Australia. Her husband was on a Country FIre Service volunteer truck during the unseasonal “Cherryville” bushfire which...
Read MoreWarning sirens to be enhanced in Victoria
(I changed this post 18/12/12) to reflect correspondence from the Victorian Fire Commssioner’s office. ) The Victorian Government in Australia has announced a pilot program to establish sirens in some bushfire prone...
Read MoreThe tale of two warnings
At the time of writing there are two fires causing authorities some headaches. Overnight it appears about 30 members of the fishing village at Musselroe Bay in North Eastern Tasmania evacuated themselves to the local boat ramp...
Read MoreUS National Weather Service Partnerships and warnings
The National Weather Service in the US has a symbiotic working relationship with the broadcast media, which far surpasses anything in Australia. Although The ABC has wonderful and often personal relationships with the Bureau of...
Read MoreWarnings workshop by accident
“Linked-in” has a group called International Emergency Managers. A thread was created with the headline: What does it take to get people to flee a storm. The response from numerous emergency specialists and people...
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