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Technical Aspects of Snow Avalanche Risk Management provides a framework for avalanche risk assessment and mitigation, as well as resources and guidelines for avalanche practitioners in Canada....
Special Issue No.102, December 2013
This report highlights the issue of operational security for national humanitarian aid workers and partner organisations. The principal findings include that despite overall improvements in aid...
People caught in avalanches can die from suffocation, trauma, or hypothermia. This info sheet tells how to stay safe when an avalanche threatens.
This handbook presents some basic information on safe construction practices. Its purpose is to provide guidance on choices regarding settlement planning in risky environments, as well as on the...
This issue of Humanitarian Exchange, co-edited by the Humanitarian Practice Network and the Security Management Initiative (SMI) in Geneva, focuses entirely on staff safety and security. Responses...
Winter storms create a higher risk of car accidents, hypothermia, frostbite, carbon monoxide poisoning, and heart attacks from overexertion. If you are under a winter storm warning, find shelter...
Winter storms can bring extreme cold, freezing rain, sleet, heavy snowfall, ice, and high winds. These storms can cause transportation, heat, power, and communication disruptions. This checklist...
This brief document describes frostbite and hypothermia, their symptoms, as well as the first aid in case a person is found suffering from them. Frostbite/hypothermia is a time-sensitive condition...
This document concerns the approach adopted to natural hazards, in particular flood protection (floods, bank erosion, debris flows), avalanche protection, mass movements (fall, slide and flow...