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The key to successful online communications isn’t deciding which new technology to use, or how often you should tweet. Instead, it’s about rethinking your organization’s goals.
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Weather forecasting has made giant strides over the past century, most particularly in the last few decades. The quality improvements in forecasts between, for example, Cyclone Tracy and Cyclone Yasi have contributed greatly to reducing the impact of severe weather events.
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Deputy Commissioner Stewart plays a key role within the national security agenda by managing the Queensland Government’s Security Planning and Coordination unit providing a whole of government security coordination and counter terrorism response. Deputy Commissioner Stewart is the inaugural chair of the Investigation Support Capability Coordination Sub-Committee for the National Counter Terrorism Committee of which he is the Queensland jurisdictional member.
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Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city has been badly damaged by a series of powerful earthquakes, the first of which struck on 4th September 2010. A number of severe aftershocks have continued to devastate the city and its infrastructure from that time until the present. The aftershock of 22nd February 2011 resulted in 181 fatalities, an international urban search and rescue (USAR) response, and the largest national deployment in the New Zealand Fire Service's history.
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An emergency force should always be well prepared to rise to new challenges. In Hong Kong, super high rise buildings and structures pose new demands not only on fire fighting but also on rescue. On the other hand, busy marine traffic within the waters of Hong Kong from time to time results in serious marine incidents such as persons trapped in capsized ship wreckage after collision.
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This presentation will first examine the challenges for science in influencing areas of contested policy using climate and environment examples and then delve into opportunities for better informing policy in the area of managing extreme events.
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The focus of the Fire Services Commissioner is on developing an integrated fire ready force, an integrated network of partner organisations outside the traditional emergency services organisations, and a fire ready and safe community.
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The collapse of the World Trade Center towers represents one of the most dramatic failures of modern structural engineering. One of the most exhaustive and expensive failure analyses in history was conducted in the mist of speculation, controversy and conspiracy theories. In parallel, the world has seen an extraordinary evolution of the super tall building. Seven of the ten tallest buildings in the world have been built after 9/11.
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During Sir Ken's presentation he intends to reflect on the changing environment and challenges, that firefighters face and how the public expectations can be meet whilst meeting increasingly stringent fiscal constraints.
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Lee Johnson became an Assistant Commissioner in QFRS in 1997 and was appointed Commissioner, QFRS, in January 2002.He began his fire service career in 1975 as a firefighter with the Townsville Fire Brigade Board. He has held firefighting, officer and management positions on the Gold Coast, Rockhampton and in Brisbane. He is currently the President of the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC). Additionally, he represents Queensland as a Director on the Board of the National Aerial Firefighting Centre (NAFC).
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