Sentences with phrase «earthquake safety»

The current regulatory framework for wastewater disposal wells was designed to protect drinking water sources from contamination and does not address earthquake safety.

Those highest on the priority list would include schools with «failing» buildings systems and those that need improvements to insure earthquake safety.

More than 300,000 students (not to mention teachers) are at risk, state earthquake safety officials have said.

I am excited to inform you that the just - released 2015 - 2017 Oregon Governor's recommended budget includes $ 100 million for earthquake safety of public schools ($ 70 million) and emergency response facilities ($ 30 million)[page 408 of the budget here].

** Conflating teen angst with the titular disaster, indie graphic novelist Dash Shaw's debut animated feature follows three awkward Tides High newspaper reporters as they discover administrative neglect of earthquake safety standards just before their institution drops into the sea.

«I think a lot of parents don't know that a charter school doesn't have to meet the same strict earthquake safety standard that major hospital and schools have,» Goldberg said.

Portland may become the first city in the Pacific Northwest to require all owners of old brick buildings to make earthquake safety upgrades.

Each year, the country observes National Earthquake Safety Day.

To test its method on a broader landscape, GHI recently spearheaded an 18 - month pilot project — the Global Earthquake Safety Initiative — comparing quake risks and solutions in 21 vulnerable cities, from Tokyo to Santiago, Chile.

The oil companies are taking the threat seriously, organizing earthquake safety procedures through a collaboration called the Safety Alliance of Cushing, said Skinner.

(Earthquake safety prevents suspending paintings from wires, as Victorians once did.)

And Nepal is both, as Ilan Kelman, an expert on risk and resilience at University College London, made vividly clear in «How earthquake safety measures could have saved thousands of lives in Nepal,» a piece on The Conversation website.

Solmaz Mohadjer, a University of Tübingen researcher developing the OpenFaultAsia online guide to earthquake faults in Asia, sent a comment on the importance of earthquake safety education.

The initiative focuses on training teachers living in earthquake - prone countries of Central Asia as earthquake safety messengers in their schools and the greater community.

1:45 p.m. Susan E. Hough, a seismologist at the United States Geological Survey focused on earthquake safety, sent this important comment:

I won't belabor this but repairing schools for earthquake safety doesn't require changing consumption habits, drastically altering lifestyles, decimating the planet for fricking oil and coal and lastly.......

Whether you're a new transplant to Washington, or are a long - time resident of the state, it's important to be familiar with earthquake safety:

In 1994, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) gave Old Republic Home Protection approval to print the Residential Environmental Hazards and Homeowner's Guide to Earthquake Safety book.

Provide students in older schools a safe, secure learning environment by removing asbestos, lead paint and lead pipes, and retrofitting for earthquake safety.

We partnered with Bechtel India to promote school earthquake safety and to educate students, faculty and parents about earthquake preparedness in Gurgaon, India.

We are also very conscious of earthquake safety and retrofitted the building for that.

But earthquake safety is not all about engineering, says Rossetto.

The children's task is to make an earthquake safety poster.

I was sitting with Yumei Wang, the director of Oregon's geohazards team (and Edward Wolf, a Portland campaigner for earthquake safety).

We developed an earthquake safety manual and training program for hospital administrators and medical staff.

Being able to have your home and contents repaired or replaced is the best protection you can have, in addition to an earthquake safety plan in place for your family.

Refer also to — Facility Manager Resume Sample General Job description: Maintenance Managers are responsible for the company's safety programs (fire / earthquake safety), facility maintenance, facility setup, cleanliness, and expansion, custodial care, equipment inventory, etc..