In my decades representing victims of commercial and construction catastrophes, one pattern has never changed: nearly every “accident” was foreseeable. A missing inspection, an ignored alarm, a ...
November’s Yellow Line accident should raise more than a few alarm bells this year; it should accelerate the facilitation of much-needed changes to ensure passenger and employee safety. This ...
Train drivers in the country are striking after a string of rail accidents in less than a week. Several people are missing after a landslide at a campsite in the tourism hotspot of Mount Maunganui, ...
I was scrolling through my feed yesterday when it happened again. Cat videos suddenly gave way to catastrophe alerts. That’s modern life – we’ve all become digital disaster detectives without even ...
The National Emergency Management Agency has expressed its readiness to draft a seven-year national disaster risk reduction strategy. The federal agency said this is meant to reduce cases of flooding, ...
Accidents like Chornobyl and Fukushima have damaged the public perception of nuclear power, leading to decreased investment and development. Nuclear power is a low-carbon energy source with a proven ...
BEIJING, Jan 4 (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it plans a three-year campaign to tackle problems hampering response times during disasters and accidents including production safety lapses in ...
Aviation experts revealed that aircraft accidents often resulted from chains of events, with malfunctions, weather and crew ...
Rajbiraj, June 7 -- One of two Armed Police Force (APF) personnel who went missing during a disaster preparedness drill in the Koshi River remains unaccounted for as of Saturday afternoon, authorities ...