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Intro -- FIRST RESPONSE AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS: DEVELOPMENTS AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: THE FIRST RESPONDER NETWORK AND NEXT-GENERATION COMMUNICATIONS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY: ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- KEY PROVISIONS IN THE SPECTRUM ACT TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS -- ROAMING AND PRIORITY ACCESS WITHIN THE 700MHZ BAND -- FIRSTNET STATUS REPORT FOR 2013 -- Chapter 2: CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION: MORE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING WOULD ENHANCE THE CYBERSECURITY OF PUBLIC SAFETY ENTITIES' EMERGING TECHNOLOGY -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- IDENTIFIED FEDERAL AGENCIES HAVE HAD LIMITED COORDINATION WITH STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS REGARDING CYBERSECURITY AT PUBLIC SAFETY ENTITIES -- CONCLUSION -- RECOMMENDATION -- AGENCY COMMENTS AND OUR EVALUATION -- APPENDIX I: OBJECTIVE, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY -- Chapter 3: STATEMENT OF DAVID S. TURETSKY, CHIEF, PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION. HEARING ON ''OVERSIGHT OFFIRSTNET AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS'' -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4: TESTIMONY OF SAMUEL GINN, CHAIRMAN, FIRST RESPONDER NETWORK AUTHORITY BOARD. HEARING ON ''OVERSIGHT OF FIRSTNET AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS'' -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. CHARTING A PATH FORWARD -- III. CONSULTATION AND OUTREACH -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5: TESTIMONY OF DERECK ORR,PROGRAM MANAGER, PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH PROGRAM, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY. HEARING ON ''OVERSIGHT OF FIRSTNET AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS'' -- INDEX.

Traffic crashes are one of the ten leading causes of deaths worldwide, and the leading cause of death for young people in the western world - a seemingly necessary evil that accompanies increasing levels of motorization. In this comprehensive 2nd edition of the classic "Traffic Safety and Human Behavior" Dr David Shinar provides a theoretical framework and a critical evaluation of the most recent research findings to comprehend the complexity of traffic safety and the central role that road users - drivers, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians play in it. In the new edition of approximately 1000 pages with nearly 300 graphs and tables, Shinar covers the key issues that relate human behavior to traffic safety and the impact that cultural, policy, and technological changes have on them. In particular the new edition covers the increasing roles that pedestrians and cyclists have in the traffic system and the need to accommodate them; the intrusion of infotainment and its role in driver distraction; and the increasing role of crash-prevention and driver assistance systems in changing the driver-vehicle interaction.

Intro -- PUBLIC SAFETY BROADBAND AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS: PLANS AND CONSIDERATIONS -- PUBLIC SAFETY BROADBAND AND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS: PLANS AND CONSIDERATIONS -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: THE FIRST RESPONDER NETWORK AND NEXT-GENERATION COMMUNICATIONS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY: ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- KEY NEW LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS TO IMPROVE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS -- Spectrum Assignment -- Expenditures and Revenue Sources -- Public Safety Trust Fund -- Network Construction Fund -- FirstNet: Limit on Expenditures -- FirstNet: Fee Income and Other Revenue -- State and Local Implementation Fund -- Other Sources of Funds -- Planning Authority -- FirstNet -- State and Local Participation -- Federal Governance -- Public-Private Partnerships -- Infrastructure -- Timeframe -- Next Generation 9-1-1 -- Technology and Standards -- FirstNet -- FCC -- NIST -- OEC -- Need for Standards Development -- INTEROPERABILITY WITHIN THE 700 MHZ BAND -- THE FUTURE -- Infrastructure and Spectrum Management -- CONSIDERATIONS FOR CONGRESS -- End Notes -- Chapter 2: EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS: VARIOUS CHALLENGES LIKELY TO SLOW IMPLEMENTATION OF A PUBLIC SAFETY BROADBAND NETWORK -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO RECOMMENDS -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- EVEN WITH INVESTMENT OF SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES, CURRENT PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS PROVIDE MISSION CRITICAL VOICE CAPABILITIES BUT ARE NOT FULLY INTEROPERABLE -- Public Investment -- Current Public Safety Communications Capabilities -- Interoperability of Current Communication Systems Remains a Limitation -- PLANNING FOR A NATIONWIDE PUBLIC SAFETY BROADBAND NETWORK PROGRESSES, BUT SUCH A NETWORK WILL NOT SUPPORT MISSION CRITICAL VOICE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE -- Federal Role

Physical safety is a core task of government. It is neither surprising nor unreasonable for government to be held accountable for hazardous substances, for food safety, for flood protection, for the spread of infectious diseases, or for the risks involved in new technologies. In 2011 the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations asked the Scientific Council for Government Policy (wrr) to investigate the scope for the development of a generic risk policy in relation to physical safety. Do citizens and businesses take sufficient responsibility for physical safety? Could the government assume a smaller role, and what part could the business community play in this? In this report the WRR argues that in order to answer these questions a distinction needs to be made between incidents, damage, risk and uncertainty. In addition, the wrr recommends that the thinking about responsibility for safety should not be placed in the perspective of a failing government, but that the central focus should be on the ambition of good governance. Finally, the wrr suggests that thinking about safety from the perspective of damage offers a useful framework for thinking through and reassessing the distribution of responsibilities. Responsibility for preventing, limiting and dealing with damage can only be assigned in advance, not retrospectively. - Fysieke veiligheid is een voorwaarde voor individuele ontplooiing en ondernemingszin en vormt de basis voor welvaart en welzijn. Mede dankzij decennia van overheidsinterventies is Nederland relatief gezien een veilig land geworden. Het is daarom noch verrassend noch onredelijk dat de maatschappij de overheid aanspreekt op (potentiële) bedreigingen en daadwerkelijke aantastingen van de fysieke veiligheid. De legitimiteit van de overheid kan onder druk komen te staan als de overheid tekortschiet in de zorg voor fysieke veiligheid. Verwachtingen over de rol van de overheid kunnen echter ook overspannen zijn, de overheid kan immers ook geen absolute veiligheid garanderen of voor elke aantasting van de fysieke veiligheid verantwoordelijk worden gehouden. In deze uitgave stelt de WRR dat de overheid niet als enige de prijs voor veiligheid en de rekening voor schade kan betalen. Ook bedrijven en burgers moeten daarvoor verantwoordelijkheid dragen, bijvoorbeeld door zich beter te verzekeren. Met deze reflectie heeft de WRR een waardevolle bijdrage geleverd aan de actuele, belangrijke en principiële discussie over de verhouding tussen overheid en burger op het gebied van fysieke veiligheid.

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Today, the global pharmaceutical product value chain is becoming increasingly complex and this has led to the emergence of 'multiple quality standards' for medicines. But this non-uniformity in the quality of medicine is also contingent upon both the regulatory milieu in the country of manufacture and the export destination of a pharmaceutical product. The focus of this paper is upon the domestic pharmaceutical market in India, where policy makers often face a trade-off between what has been called 'high quality' and 'affordable quality' medicines. With India being recognised as the pharmacy of the developing world, it is believed that there is need for strict quality specification and enforcement within the country in the first place. Against this background, there have been several reports where doubts have been raised regarding quality of medicines available in India. This paper, by mapping the perspectives of several stakeholders, attempts to bring clarity on issues related to poor quality medicines and suggest institutional reforms in the Indian regulatory regime, looking at good and bad practices followed both domestically and internationally.

This paper surveys trends and conclusions in federally sponsored studies of nuclear reactor safety and their implications for nuclear regulation. The paper finds that recent studies do not rule out the possibility of light water reactor accidents equal to or even larger in size than the 1986 Chernobyl accident. The probability of such an event–involving both core melt and prompt containment failure–is quite small, but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) estimated probability of core melt is significantly higher. The paper reviews the NRC's use of these findings through a probabilistic cost‐benefit framework, and it concludes that a greater and focused NRC commitment to risk reduction is justified.

Public safety agencies across the nation are increasingly using drones for public safety applications. However, drone technology has both positive and negative effects on the public. This paper analyzes the use of drones in public safety and the effects of such use, while providing a recommendation on how a public safety agency can deploy a drone program while considering the benefits and burdens. Three immediate and important uses are outlined. They include the utilization of drones for search and rescue, disaster response and crime scene photography. In each application, drones do a better and more efficient job than personnel because they have better access and suitability for tasks that may be dangerous. Privacy concerns, the military perception, aerial disturbances, and distrust of law enforcement highlight the most critical public concerns that must be considered before launching a drone program. Laws, regulations, and best practices are critical for establishing trust and alleviating fears with the public. Fears are resolved with an effective communication strategy, a good policy and adherence to Federal and State laws. Even though law enforcement drone use is controversial, if not already doing so, public safety agencies should consider their use. If applied and used sensibly, drones have the potential to be incredible assets.

As the Public Education Network (PEN) and its member local education funds (LEFs) are committed to creating systems of public education that result in high achievement for every child, we believe that equal opportunity, access to quality public schools, and an informed citizenry are all critical components of a democratic society. Part of making available a high-quality public education is ensuring that students and teachers spend their days in safe schools, which are free from violence, free from fear of harassment and threatening situations, and conducive to teaching and learning.Five local education funds have helped their communities broach these difficult issues with conversations on national and local issues of safety and violence in schools. During the last part of 2000, more than 250 people participated in conversations in Buffalo, NY; Lancaster, PA; McKeesport, PA; and Paterson, NJ. In February 2001, the local education fund in Atlanta, GA hosted a conversation that included students, teachers, principals, law enforcement officials, parents, and other community leaders.These local education funds conducted their community dialogues on school safety and violence as part of an assessment of their community's readiness and capacity to address the health and well being of children in their public schools. This assessment included looking into issues of health insurance coverage, coordination of health and social services for children and their families, maintaining safe learning environments, and the level of resources devoted to children's health and social services. Participants, therefore, understood that these community dialogues are not just "one-shot" efforts at addressing school safety and violence but as a part of a more comprehensive approach to address the systemic issues affecting children in their public schools.The local education funds used The 1999 Metropolitan Life Survey of the American Teacher, Violence in America's Public Schools: Five Years Later, as a starting place for their conversations, to ground their local experiences in a national context. This Lessons from the Field provides a summary of the MetLife survey and highlights findings from the conversations in four local education fund communities. (Law enforcement officials are referred to in this publication as "officers." All teachers and students referred to here are from public schools, and all "schools" referred to are public schools.)