The NRDC report also suggested that framing climate change vulnerability and preparedness planning in terms of emergency or risk management could be useful, as many state and municipal officials are already familiar with those concepts.
IncREO - Increasing Resilience through Earth Observation is a collaborative project under the call FP7-SPACE-2012-1 in support of emergency response management and risk-preparedness.
The debate in the House of Lords came as Labour was granted an emergency debate on the risk register in the Commons on 20 March 2012.
Mr Anderson told Radio 4's Today programme the high-risk nature of emergency abdominal surgery was not being recognised.
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Only as a last resort (Power Emergency) to avoid the risk of a complete blackout does ERCOT ask utilities to reduce demand by dropping load through rotating outages.
The survivors will heal in time, but survivors, witnesses, and emergency personnel are all at risk from psychological trauma that can appear weeks or even months after the explosions.
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It is important to mention that individuals that already have the flu who then become more ill during the duration of the illness, (difficulty breathing, or shortness of breath) need to seek medical attention immediately in an emergency department, as the risk of secondary pneumonia rises with an abrupt deterioration of your condition.
By screening victims for risk factors at crime scenes, in hospital emergency rooms, and in court and linking those most at risk with immediate crisis intervention services, Maryland has reduced its domestic violence homicide rate by 34% over the past five years.
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Paul McKay, who chairs the council's risk, safety and emergency management board, said it was prioritising areas that were likely to flood or become isolated if the A6097 flooded.
She rejects the claims by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) that cutting the number of fire stations means it takes longer to answer emergency calls and puts lives at risk.
The report also highlighted the lack of an accepted international industry standard for tug tow line emergency release systems, and asked risk management organisation Lloyd's Register to develop a standard to ensure tow lines can be released effectively in an emergency.
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For example, the United States is working closely with Russia to reach an agreement that would establish links between our computer emergency response teams and our nuclear risk reduction centers to build cooperation and to set up lines of communication in the event of an alarming incident.
The 90-day emergency orders immediate action to reduce the risk of contamination to the local population.
But Edwin Poots said no patient's life had been put at risk and anyone who needed emergency care had received it.
Accident and emergency medics say lives are put at risk because riders do not have to wear protective gear - despite the fact the bikes can reach 90mph.
In Devon officers mustn't throw out a life-belt in an emergency without first conducting an assessment of the risk to themselves.
Underscoring the risk, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) found that approximately 27 percent of the 42, 854 agency-reported security incidents during the 2011 fiscal year involved malicious code.
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In the current New England Journal Study, coronary CT scans were used as a triage tool to screen low to intermediate risk patients who presented to the emergency department with chest pain.
Health plans such as Humana are buying up organizations such as Concentra in large part to secure primary care providers or else they risk their members going to the Emergency Department for primary care.
The take-home message is that when financial interests have an effect on the availability of specific medications to treat emergency medical conditions, the public is at risk and our health and safety are compromised.
"We will respond immediately if anyone is in need of urgent medical attention - but in a non-emergency situation, then we will make a risk assessment and discuss the outcomes with the ambulance service or any other agency who has requested our help, " Mr Kernohan told the BBC.
The SEC typically files only one or two emergency actions every year, usually to prevent the risk that profits from suspicious trading will vanish offshore.
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Parkland has until April to rectify a long list of problems, including its emergency department, and the lack of staff accountability, or risk losing Medicare funding.
And if an emergency situation develops during which various oversight procedures are overlooked, the risk is even greater, it added.
He said there was also a risk that the new beds would be used to treat emergency patients at times of high demand.
The initial plan was for it to reopen during summer months, but council and emergency service officials have now said that this would put lives at risk.
It says all five sites would continue to provide accident and emergency and midwifery-led maternity services, but says high-risk maternity deliveries could be centralised in three units.
As a result of an in-flight, Boeing 787 battery incident earlier today in Japan, the FAA will issue an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) to address a potential battery fire risk in the 787 and require operators to temporarily cease operations.
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The report also found that a third of emergency workers working in the plant after the disaster are at an increased risk of cancer.
He said less money led to the risk of increased waiting times for services such as accident and emergency, and was putting additional pressures on his staff.
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