Mon, 24 November 2008 Welcome to Mitigation Journal the All-Hazards Podcast! Contact us: Email - mitigationjournal@gmail.com Call the voicemail line - 585-672-7844 Subscribe to Mitigation Journal at iTunes...its Free! Special Announcements! Mitigation Journal and the The MedicCast have responded on a mutual-aid assignment - We collected tons of EMS training infomation...exerpts from our podcasts, live lectures, and narrated movie files for EMS training. Check out the MedicCast Extra at www.mediccast.com. CISM Perspectives is offering a Line of Duty Death Pre-Planning Seminar. This is a must seminar for fire, EMS, and law enforcement chiefs, line officers, safety officers and peer support teams. Go to www.cismperspectives.com or email cism79@frontiernet.net to register. This week on Mitigation Journal: Listener emails and comments - I've gotten more email than usual this past week. Many listeners looking for more information on the cyanide/hydrogen sulfide/consumer level hazardous materials topics. Special thanks to Van in the Netherlands, Lcprl Loller USMC, and Martin in Miami, Florida. My commentary this week relates to taxes and how the public is challenging use of tax dollars by traditional responder groups...just a few years after September 11...it may seem that in the face of economic heard times that nothing is beyond accountability. Surf'n the News - A brief collection of news items: The Ricin Guy goes to prison for three and a half years Nebraska changes the Safe Haven laws The final installment in our four-part series Taking Better Care of Our Own...Before, During and After Crisis with Dan McGuire. This segment focuses on recognizing stress and managing situations after chronic stress and acute stress situation. Comments[0] |
Mon, 17 November 2008 Welcome to Mitigation Journal the All-Hazards Podcast! Contact us: Email - mitigationjournal@gmail.com Call the voicemail line - 585-672-7844 Subscribe to Mitigation Journal at iTunes...its Free! Special Announcements! Mitigation Journal and the The MedicCast have responded on a mutual-aid assignment - We collected tons of EMS training infomation...exerpts from our podcasts, live lectures, and narrated movie files for EMS training. Check out the MedicCast Extra at www.mediccast.com. CISM Perspectives is offering a Line of Duty Death Pre-Planning Seminar. This is a must seminar for fire, EMS, and law enforcement chiefs, line officers, safety officers and peer support teams. Go to www.cismperspectives.com or email cism79@frontiernet.net to register. This week on Mitigation Journal: Part 3 in our 4-part series Taking Better Care of Our Own...Before, During and After Crisis with Dan McGuire. In this weeks segment Dan talks about actually managing the LODD event. This segment has tips for agency leaders, front line managers, and members at every level in your organization. My Commentary this week is asking us to look at what it is that we are preparing for...have our preparedness efforts paid off for future readiness. Topics in the News: The Big Shake Out: Huge drill in California Still in California, wild fires threaten L.A. power supply Comments[0] |
Mon, 10 November 2008 Welcome to Mitigation Journal the All-Hazards Podcast! Contact us: Email - mitigationjournal@gmail.com Call the voicemail line - 585-672-7844 Subscribe to Mitigation Journal at iTunes...its Free! Special Announcements! Mitigation Journal and the The MedicCast have responded on a mutual-aid assignment - We collected tons of EMS training infomation...exerpts from our podcasts, live lectures, and narrated movie files for EMS training. Check out the MedicCast Extra at www.mediccast.com. CISM Perspectives is offering a Line of Duty Death Pre-Planning Seminar. This is a must seminar for fire, EMS, and law enforcement chiefs, line officers, safety officers and peer support teams. Go to www.cismperspectives.com or email cism79@frontiernet.net to register. This week on Mitigation Journal: I'm going to hold off from giving my commentary this week due to the great opportunity to get a few words with Eric Holdeman of ICF International and author of the Disaster Zone blog. Check out the Disaster Zone at http://www.disaster-zone.com/ Also this week, part two in our series Taking Better Care of Our Own, Before, During and After Crisis with Mr. Dan McGuire of CISM Perspectives Comments[0] |
Mon, 3 November 2008 Welcome to Mitigation Journal the All-Hazards Podcast! Contact us: Email - mitigationjournal@gmail.com Call the voicemail line - 585-672-7844 Subscribe to Mitigation Journal at iTunes...its Free! This week on Mitigation Journal: Due to the giant number of emails on our prior commentary (simple steps to infection control) we'll talk more about infection control and the need to use PPE with good hygiene and the results of several studies. This weeks commentary is about personal planning: Planning for health and fitness...before its too late. This week we'll also start a four-part series with Dan McGuire of CISM Perspectives...the title of this series is "Taking Better Care of Our Own; Before During and After Crisis" In Part one we'll be talking about new trends in responder well-being and a look at functional responder well-being programs. For more information visit CISMperspectives.com and ask Dan for his free eight-page guide. In part two; Dan and I will discuss Pre-planning and training for LODD events...stay tuned! Comments[0] |

