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You don’t need to be a technical expert to understand emergency response. Our blog explains trends & gives insights on all things public safety, from the latest innovations to the key issues affecting citizens & emergency professionals.
Recent posts
Where Are We… With Public Warning?
In this new series of blogs, we explore the state of play with the main topics in public safety. With rapidly evolving legislation, different stages of implementation across Europe and beyond, it can be difficult to keep up. Where are we in terms of deployment, EU legislation, EENA’s work on the topic and future updates? These blogs will be a one-stop guide for everything you need to know on the current state of the most important topics in public safety. Today, we cover public warning.
The False Call Mystery
Earlier this year, emergency call centres experienced a strange and alarming issue. Globally, millions of calls to emergency numbers were made, but the callers were completely silent.
The Importance of Safety for Volunteer Responders in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests (OHCA)
While safety for responders in any medical emergencies always should be a top priority, it is perhaps even more important if the responders are volunteer lay-persons or off duty medical staff.
A voice for citizens in emergencies and disasters: the policy recommendations of the ENGAGE project
Alexandra Olson, EENA’s EU Projects Officer, sat down with David Wales, a researcher involved in the EU-funded ENGAGE project, to talk about the policy recommendations that the project has produced, the role that his background in the UK Fire and Rescue Service played in their development, and what implications the recommendations have for emergency services and disaster management as a whole.
The Effects of Circuit Switched FallBack on Emergency Calls
According to the current legal framework, access to emergency services revolves around number-based interpersonal communication services, which means the caller identity is one of the main attributes of the emergency call.
Where Are We… With Next Generation 112
These blogs will be a one-stop guide for everything you need to know on the current state of the most important topics in public safety. Today, we cover Next Generation 112.
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