The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), in partnership with the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC), has released an in-depth guide on two of the biggest challenges facing the volunteer fire and emergency services – retention and recruitment.

It is highly probable that biological attacks by terrorists will occur in the next 5 years. Dr. Raymond Zilinskis, senior scientist-in-residence at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, gave the above statement to a U.S. House of...

In the June 21 Federal Register, OSHA announced that it is accepting Susan Harwood Training Grant applications, which serve as funds to nonprofit organizations to provide training and education programs for employers and employees on safety and...

This week, an exercise mimicking a major oil spill has responders from 11 states participating in a full-scale exercise to test the National Response System.

OSHA announced that it has formed a Directorate of Training and Education to increase the effectiveness of the agency’s in-house and distributed training programs.

Networking is not just for executives anymore. Terrorist groups around the world with different ideologies and from different religious and ethnic backgrounds have improved their effectiveness by teaching each other deadly skills such as bomb...

Statistics do not reflect a significant drop of workplace injuries or fatalities, and further investigation of these incidents often points to deficiencies in training.

The Department of Health and Human Service's (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new DVD in order to train health care workers who aren't respiratory care specialists to provide basic respiratory care for adult...

The Department of Health and Human Service's (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a DVD that is designed to help train health care workers who aren't respiratory care specialists to provide basic respiratory care...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will allow nonprofit organizations in the 46 designated UASI areas to apply for funds as part of the fiscal year (FY) 2007 Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP).