Increasing the Effectiveness of the Federal Role in Cybersecurity Education

The nation’s critical infrastructure is increasingly reliant on information technology, while cyberattacks continue to get worse. A well-trained cybersecurity workforce is essential to both government and private industry. With cyber threats growing, however, the United States faces a severe shortage of properly trained and equipped cybersecurity professionals. Two programs that seek to enha…

Terrorism, Transit and Public Safety Evaluating the Risks

This paper evaluates the overall safety of public transit, taking into account all risks, including recent terrorist attacks. It indicates that transit is an extremely safe mode, with total per passenger-mile fatality rates approximately one-tenth that of automobile travel. It is important for individuals and public officials to avoid overreacting to terrorist threats in ways that increase over…

TREE EMERGENCY MANUAL for Public Officials

This Emergency Tree Manual is designed to be a practical short guide to managing disastrous tree damage, accompanied by a set of critical documents and standards called the Tree Emergency Compendium. Its focus is upon urban forests in the public realm, where questions of safety and cost are critical, and its target audience is public tree managers. To facilitate access to and speed through th…

Columbia University Public Safety

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, more commonly known as the Clery Act, requires colleges and universities to: publish an annual report every year by October 1 that contains three years of campus crime and fire safety statistics and certain campus security policy statements; disclose crime statistics for the campus, public areas immed…

Public Sector Bargaining Laws Really Matter: Evidence from Ohio and Illinois

A generation ago, America had two starkly different legal policies governing collective bargaining and union activity-one for employees of the government and another for employees of private corporations. The erosion of this difference, as more and more states have enacted public sector bargaining laws patterned after the National Labor Re- lations Act (NLRA), is one of the most important devel…

Staff Perceptions of Public Safety Consolidation

Diminishing resources, particularly since the economic recession of 2008 and 2009, have made it difficult for communities to provide and maintain police and fire services. The overall costs for such services—$80 billion for police and $40 billion for fire in 2009 (U.S. Census Bureau, 2009)—plus the large proportion— typically about 80 percent—of expenses for police and fire personnel (…

Perspectives on Strategic Planning in the Public Sector

The literature is replete with coverage on the topic of strategic planning. Every nuance, every variance, every view, and every possible issue associated with strategic planning— purposes, definitions, methods, and implementation—are covered in seemingly endless ways and detail. Indeed, if an author were to write on the subject of strategic planning and add something of significance that wa…

Profile of Maryland Environmental Public Health Practice

All Marylanders deserve safe food and water, healthy air, and protection from environmental threats. In order to determine Maryland's capacity to ensure this healthy environment, the Profile of Maryland Environmental Public Health Practice project, an examination of local environmental public health capacities, needs, and future challenges, was initiated by the Johns Hopkins Center for Excellen…

CAMPUS PUBLIC SAFETY PREPAREDNESS FOR CATASTROPHIC EVENTS: LESSONS LEARNED F…

It is imperative to have up-to-date emergency operation plans that address all hazards and are exercised on a regular basis. During the hurricanes, many schools found themselves without adequate plans and were forced to adopt hastily-planned responses. Several particularly important planning points were noted. • Consider extending provisions for self-sufficiency in Emergency Operations Pla…

A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT PUBLIC LIABILITY FOR FLOOD HAZARD MITIGATION

Despite the expenditure of more than 200 billion nationally for dams, dikes, levees, and other flood control structures, flood losses in the U.S. continue to rise. Rising losses are accompanied by increased “liability” suits. Private landowners who are damaged by floods increasingly file nuisance, trespass, negligence, or “taking” claims against governmental entities claiming that gover…

A Guide to Public Safety Diving

This guide has been prepared as an aid to public sector employers that employ dive teams, with information and guid- ance to help them protect employees’ health and safety, particularly in reducing and preventing exposure to recognized occupational hazards. Public safety diving is a diving operation performed solely for search, rescue, recovery, investigation or related public safety purpose…

Protecting the public

This guidance is aimed at everyone involved in the construction process. It provides practical advice on how those designing, planning, maintaining and carrying out construction work can minimise the risks to those who are not involved in the construction process but may be affected. 2 Each year construction work injures and kills people who have no direct connection to it. 3 The Health and S…

GIS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY

Public safety means programs carried out or promoted for public purposes. This involves, directly or indirectly, the prevention of, protection from, and/or response to natural or man Ȭ made events that could endanger the safety or security of people or property in a given area1. Public safety embraces an interdisciplinary framework to address these threats and respond to the needs of the gener…

URBAN PUBLIC ECONOMICS

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THE INCIDENT COMMAND SYSTEM FOR PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTER

Incident command systems and incident management systems are the general standard used by fire and rescue services for the management of major events. The original version, the National Interagency Incident Management System (NIIMS) is the federal government standard for federal participation in field events. And the National Wildfire Coordinating Group adaptation of NIIMS is the standard for…

Department of Public Safety Training & Certification

The Bucks County Public Safety Training Center is managed by the Bucks County Community College Division of Continuing Education by the Department of Public Safety Training and Certification. Through this unique partnership, the Emergency Services has the benefit of support from an established educational institution.

Public Attitudes, Perceptions and Behaviours towards Cabin Safety Communications

This study provides an overview of aircraft cabin safety communications in Australia, in terms of effectiveness, passenger attitudes to such communications and opportunities that exist for improvement. Most passengers agreed that paying attention to cabin safety communications is important. However, results revealed that behaviours do not always match this perception. Perceived relevance …

UNIVERSITY POLICE & PUBLIC SAFETY

University Police and Public Safety strives to establish a social and physical environment wherein people on the campus may be free from fear and thereby contribute to the overall quality and excellence of The Pennsylvania State University.

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TEXAS DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (TDEM)

This state is divided into disaster districts to engage in homeland security preparedness and response activities. The boundaries of the disaster districts coincide with the geographic boundaries of the state planning regions (COGs) established by the governor under Chapter 391, Local Government Code.

COMBINED PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER IN WASHINGTON COUNTY

This document reports the results of a yearlong initiative to examine the potential for establishing a consolidated public safety training center for Washington County located on the campus of Hagerstown Community College (HCC). The idea for a joint training center, including its potential location on the HCC campus, has been discussed for many years. For example, in the 1998 report, Comprehe…

RAILROAD SAFETY AND PUBLIC POLICY

This paper discusses the safety challenges faced by railroads in the United States. It discusses and evaluates public policy dealing with trespassing, grade crossing collisions, occupational injuries and operational accidents. The primary conclusion is that the government oversight body, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), should take on the role of teacher and risk analyst rather than …

Public Procurement Practice RISK MANAGEMENT

olitical : risks associated with a failure to deliver policy for the entity that is served, or to meet the local administration’s policy commitments (e.g. a failure to integrate sustainability considerations into acquisition decisions), and the impact of social unrest, changes in government, and the potential for political turmoil at home or abroad. n Economic : risks affecting the organizati…

DATABASES IN HEALTHCARE

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Integrating Healthcare, Empowering Patients

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WIELDING SOFT POWER: The New Public Diplomacy

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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION :Concepts and Cases

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The Public Administration Theory Primer

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The Theory of Public Administration and Its Relevance to Nigerian Administrat…

We analytically put the concept of public administration into perspective in this paper. In the process, we traced its genealogy and, its theoretical provisions as well as the implications and challenges of these provisional at each stage of its development. We specifically zeroed-in on the practical applications of these provisions in a country like Nigeria. Prominence was given to the feature…

The Return of Public Relations to the Public Administration Curriculum

There are increasing indications that public relations is slowly returning to the public administration curriculum. This was a common topic in early public administration literature, but by the second half of the 20th century it had largely disappeared from widely used textbooks. Now, with the increased power of the news media and other rapidly growing and changing alternative communications ve…