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Overview of the Hindenburg Dirigible Disaster

very good and it was, at the time, a more promising form of travel, for traveling across the Atlantic, than airplanes at the time....

Hindenburg Dirigible Catastrophe of 1937

over Germany. Meanwhile, the United States, who possessed the only natural deposits of helium became more and more suspicious. As ...

Paint Caused the Hindenburg Disaster

to the belief that it was hydrogen that caused the flames and also because the United States and Germany were at a very tense posi...

BP’s Problem in 2010

been undertaking environmental strategies as part of their operations and the emerging BP set themselves a goal of being a leader ...

Security and Risk Management

Emergency preparedness is something in which societies often invest tremendous...

The BP Oil Disaster - a Stakeholder Perspective

provided by the relevant ethical standards expected. 2. Stakeholders may be defined in terms of primary and secondary stakeholders...

Three Disasters at a Time

In March, 2011, Japan suffered a massive earthquake, a massive tsunami, and a nuclear accident. No country has ever experienced su...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Nursing Home Patients And Their Vulnerabilities During Disasters

food, clean water and - most important for some people who did not survive - electricity to keep their life-sustaining equipment r...

American Red Cross Introduction To Disaster Services Training

is based upon the foundation of Disaster Services Training: 1. Planning and Coordination 2. Food and Shelter 3. Health and Mental...

Federal Standards of Safety

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration has standards for everything that has to do with employment. Violations can be cos...

Events That Damage a Business

Businesses are at risk for many different disruptions. Natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes and human-made disasters li...

Organizational Failures, an Overview

This paper presents responses to three issues that pertain to organizational failures that led to disasters. The MOVE, WACO and Ch...

Issues and Perspectives on the Deepwater Oilrig Explosion

impacted by it either directly or indirectly. These include the employees who rely on BP for the provision of jobs, and provide a ...

The Edge of Disaster

in the effort to make the nation more secure is the private sector, but it has not done so (2007). Instead, the government has tak...

Organizational Problems at NASA

and Deal, 2003). When applying this firstly to the Challenger case, the way in which their limited resources was present in cultu...

Two Responses to Disaster

This research paper, first of all, describes the characteristics of the Disaster Management Cycle and the Disaster-Development Con...

The Management of the BP Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Crisis

Louisiana, where the water was roughly 5,000 feet deep. At roughly 9.45 pm2 there was an explosion resulting from high pressure me...

Literature Review of Emergency Preparedness in Puerto Rico

for tsunamis. In short, Puerto Rico, though considered an "island paradise" is rife for all kinds of natural disasters, pa...

At Risk Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters by Piers Blaikie

In five pages this report considers a disaster's aftermath and people's vulnerability as represented in this 1996 theoretical text...

Dealing with Disaster using Computer Networks

1. Domain Sizing and Capacity Planning for Windows NT Server 4.0 (reproduced from Microsoft Corporation, 2002) Number SAM Reg...

Adolf Hitler and the Issues That Led to His Power

In five pages this paper examines the factors that led to Hitler's power rise such as the punitive Versailles Treaty, the 1923 Put...

Ecology of Fear Reviewed

use federal dollars to do so. Many feel sorry for them. But then there is the other point of view. Why build homes in such a place...

Agenda for American Civil Reform Justice A Response

Civil litigation is considered in this overview of six pages and incorporates examples to reveal civil justice inadequacies includ...

Notification Services

take out the trash ("Memo to Me," 2007). Of course, many computers are equipped with remainder features that exist on software suc...

The Elderly and their Needs

This research paper provides an overview of the various needs that society should address in order to order to provide comprehensi...

Dynamic Cybernetic Team Model

A scenario of disaster plan at a hospital is used as the basis for this essay. The scenario is described briefly, including commen...

Counselor as First Responder

What role does a crisis counselor play as part of a multidisciplinary first response team? What services can a crisis counselor pr...

IT System Contingency Planning Process

The paper presents a process which may be used for disaster recovery and contingency planning, focusing on IT assets and systems. ...

Response to Tuberculosis Outbreak

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at disaster response efforts. A 2012 response to a Colorado tuberculosis outbreak is e...