Sentence examples for preparedness center from inspiring English sources
The Survival Preparedness Center did a fairly brisk business in the days before the year 2000.
Arizona's domestic preparedness center, once staffed 24 hours a day, is empty, though officials say it can be reactivated in an hour.
But 125,000 existing schools remain "unsafe and in need of retrofit," according to a 2007 report from the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center.
But Chusit Apirumanekul, a hydrologist at Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, said "that will not happen in... the inner part of Bangkok".
"If there were a fail-safe, perfect solution, we'd recommend it absolutely," said Dr. Michael Bell, chief of infection control for the national preparedness center at the C.D.C. "But there isn't a crisp, hard guideline.
So Dave Boser and Bill Baxter, owners of the Survival Preparedness Center on Main Street here, had no choice but to shut it down a couple of weeks ago.
But the main reason for the switch is that UPMC administers an exceptionally well integrated system of 20 hospitals that will be an ideal testing ground for new bioterrorism preparedness strategies, says center director Tara O'Toole.
But the program got off to a slow start and Dr. Raymond A. Strikas, director of smallpox preparedness in the centers' immunization division, said volunteers dropped off sharply after late March.
Improvement in child care centers' preparedness to respond to emergencies and disasters should include maintaining the immediate availability of potentially life-saving medications and ensuring that all child care center employees are trained in first aid and, where appropriate, CPR [ 3].
At the community level, findings from a survey of households within a 1-mi radius of sites with large volumes of highly hazardous chemicals (i.e., RMP sites) also showed a lack of preparedness (Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center 2002b).
"This is a great opportunity to bring New York's research community to the planning table for emergency preparedness," said Dr. Neal L. Cohen, the new center's executive director.
