Written by: Sheryl Krieg, The News-Sentinel – May 11, 2017 (TNS) – The Indiana Department of Homeland Security is reporting a new and deadly opiate mixture has crossed state lines, resulting in an overdose in central Indiana. Gray Death, … read more

Written by: Michael Dorn A federal civil action is not the ideal time to learn that an important aspect of your school safety program has serious flaws. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for safety incidents which result in litigation to … read more

  Written by: Laruen Lindstrom, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio (TNS) – St. Luke’s Hospital, Ohio, unveiled today a new germ-killing robot that destroys infection-causing bacteria and virus cells using beams of light. The Xenex LightStrike robot uses a type of … read more

  Written by: Terry Hastings Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Team of Teams is an excellent book about leadership and the need to adapt to changing circumstances. In the book, he explains how the U.S. Special Operations Task Force in Iraq had … read more

Written by: Beatriz Valenzuela, San Bernardino County Sun, CA (TNS) – Teachers and staff of North Park Elementary School received active shooter and lockdown training less than a year before an armed man entered the school and opened fire inside … read more

Last year Sandy Hook Promise released a chilling and powerful public service announcement stressing the importance of watching for the signs of troubled youth to help prevent gun violence before it starts. CNN quoted Nicole Hockley, co-founder and managing director … read more

Written by: Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times (March 9, 2017) (TNS) – Yellow fever has broken out in the jungles outside Brazil’s most densely-populated cities, raising a frightening but still remote possibility: an epidemic that could decimate that country’s population … read more

Written by: Lynn Arditi, The Providence Journal, R.I. (March 16, 2017) (TNS) – A national study by doctors at Rhode Island Hospital estimates U.S. hospitals’ response to the Ebola crisis in 2014 cost, conservatively, some $360 million. The study, published … read more

Written by: Roger Edwards The most important part of tornado safety in schools, and in similar logistical arrangements such as nursing homes, is to develop a good tornado safety plan tailored to your building design and ability to move people. … read more

Written by: Ken Reid If you’ve been in meetings and exercises that simulate a total communications loss, you’ve likely wondered what you would do in the event of a catastrophic failure that takes down cellular, Internet, power, and even your … read more