McCann says the first principle is avoiding threatening events and the second is preparedness: "It is effectively negligent to go into a place you don't understand and expose vulnerabilities.
Other measures show signs of a both proactive and reactive character that is preparedness and response.
The troublesome ones are preparedness – discussed above in relation to external threats – and offset and transfer.
Perhaps the most valuable tactic you'll read about in 100 Deadly Skills, however, is preparedness.
"It's a military preparedness issue," Mr. Cleland said.
It's all there: preparedness, direction, communication, integration, co-operation, anticipation.
"It's an emergency-preparedness method we came up with in high school," Shoshana says.
But I urge you to at least read the first section of Wil Hylton's story about the state of bioterrorism preparedness — it's only 400 words — and I'll be surprised if you don't feel compelled to keep going.
Emergency preparedness It's critical that schools have a plan for keeping children out of harm's way, says Caroyln Duff, the president of the National Assn.
It's in his physical preparedness that he is at a disadvantage next to those who ride six a day.
