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USS John C. Stennis, 2001

FA-18 Hornet fighter jet

F/A-18 Hornet awaits next round of combat flight operations supporting "Operation Enduring Freedom"

US Navy Photo: Jayme Pastoric

USS John C. Stennis, 2001

plane prepares for flight

 

Events and Seminars

Disaster Resilience: Comparative Perspectives, University of Pittsburgh workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, April 23-24, 2010 Contact Louise K. Comfort.

High Reliability Organizations 2010 International Workshop, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

High Reliability Management and Crisis Leadership, workshop. Emery Roe with Paul R. Schulman. Sponsored by MINDexpert in Singapore, November 23-24, 2009.

HRO Workshops at United Steelworker's Health, Safety and Environment Conference, Houston, Texas, August 2009

CCRM Associates Earl Carnes (Department of Energy - DOE) and Bill Hoyle (independent consultant) presented two workshops on high reliability organizing (HRO) at the United Steelworkers Union's Health, Safety and Environment Conferenc in Houston, Texas, in August 2009. A Total of 74 people attended one of the identical workshops.  The participants came from diverse industries and included both union and management members of facility safety committees.  The response was very positive.  The people most interested came from the oil refinery sector.  Carnes and Hoyle are in ongoing discussions with the Steelworkers Union about ways to promote HRO in DOE facilities represented by the union.

UC Berkeley Law Library web site on “Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond”

Conference at Boalt Law School on Rebuilding a Sustainable City after Katrina
(January 19, 2006) 

Conference on As the Flood Waters Recede: Environmental Justice & Katrina
(March 10, 2006)

Conference on ReEnvisioning the Delta
(March 16-17, 2006)

Development of GIS web site for
mapping Katrina

Law course Disasters and the Law: The Legal Implications of Hurricane Katrina

Galicia, Spain 2002
oil spill bird

Prestige Oil Spill

Photo:Greenpeace UK
Elume Spill, Nigeria, 2000
oil spill fire

Petroleum and Pipeline Marketing Co. Oil Spill

Photo: Israel Aloja/Environmental Rights Action

 

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