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Who’s Society’s Most Resilient? – Not Who You’d Think.
Who’s Society’s Most Resilient? – Not Who You’d Think.

the most obvious collection of guesses and not entirely wrong, the demographic that often surprises people because they turn out to be anything but vulnerable is ...

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Russell Boon7 December 2012Resilience, disaster, society, ageComment
Why You Wont be the First Gas BBQ on the Moon.
Why You Wont be the First Gas BBQ on the Moon.

Blow-back? For gas BBQs and many other gas stoves they operate with little or no noise and yet occasionally a loud 'pop' is heard before the sound of rushing gas like a blowtorch.

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Russell Boon5 August 2012gas, BBQ, leak, explosion, LPGComment
Cars Dont Explode
Cars Dont Explode

Why is it the everytime a vehicle is involved in a collision or accident of some sort in 'the movies' it explodes? Are we all driving around in the equivalent of a petrol bomb just waiting for that opportunity to blow up?

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Russell Boon13 July 2012Car accident, accident, blow up, car, explosionComment
Why Alarms, Aren't That Alarming
Why Alarms, Aren't That Alarming

Most of us wake up to an alarm clock, have an alarm on the microwave, set off our smoke detector every time we toast some bread, an iPhone that chimes and a car alarm that wakes the neigbourhood most nights.

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Russell Boon24 June 2012Evacuation, Emergency, wardens, behaviour, Alarms Comments
AS3745:2010 Even the Big Names Aren't Getting it
AS3745:2010 Even the Big Names Aren't Getting it

I am regularly contracted by clients of other emergency management providers to independently audit their AS3745 compliance.

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Russell Boon7 June 2012AS3745, WHS, Work Health and Safety, audit, compliance, emergency planning, emergency response proceduresComment
CBD Evacuation Assembly Areas
CBD Evacuation Assembly Areas

I recently read an ongoing forum discussion where many of the participants were lamenting how their building's Assembly Area involved them crossing a road to access it.

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Russell Boon19 May 2012Emergency, Evacuation, crossing, roadsComment
How Much Power Can You Handle?
Russell Boon29 April 2012computer, Surge, Power, electricity, Belkin, UPS Comments
Process vs. Result or: Planning vs. Plan
Russell Boon14 April 2012emergency planning, Emergency, plan, procedureComment
The Evacuees' Paradigm
Russell Boon4 April 2012Evacuation, Emergency, alarm, evacueeComment
Gender and the Storm: Women and Natural Disasters
Russell Boon25 March 2012Disaster, gender, emergency management, womenComment
My Building has Two Emergency Tones?
Russell Boon11 March 2012Evacuation, Tones, Alert, Evacuate, Hi-Rise, AlarmsComment
IT - Regus Report, 36% Of Australian Small Businesses Have No Disaster Recovery System
emergency preparednessRussell Boon24 February 2012IT, backup, emergency planning, small business Comment
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