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Industry Associations Bulletin Board
September 2009
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Building Seismic Safety Council
The BSSC was established in 1979 as a Council of the National Institute of Building Sciences. Developed as an entirely new type of instrument, the BSSC deals with the complex regulatory, technical, social, and economic issues involved in developing and promulgating building earthquake risk mitigation regulatory provisions that are national in scope. By bringing together all of the needed expertise and relevant public and private interests, it was believed that issues related to the seismic safety of the built environment could be resolved and jurisdictional problems overcome through authoritative guidance and assistance backed by a broad consensus. www.bssconline.org
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Association for Enterprise Information
AFEI is a platform for collaboration and information exchange amongst business, government and academia on the critical enterprise information issues of today. Their members work on issues that support the important national goals of: 1.) Promoting the secure sharing of information amongst business, governments and citizens, 2.) Advancing the leveraging of national information assets for decision advantage, and 3.) Providing a community that evolves best practices in developing and deploying secure IT environments. www.afei.org
Security Institute
The Security Institute provides a program that addresses the issue of professional validation for security professionals. The program is designed to assess security management experience, academic qualifications, vocational qualifications and contributions to the security profession. It establishes an independent professional validation board, which will validate applications made by individuals seeking to attain a grading in the Security Institute. www.security-institute.org
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Public Utilities Risk Management Association
The Public Utilities Risk Management Association (PURMA) is a not-for-profit organization founded to provide publicly-owned utilities consistently superior and cost-effective information, education and business solutions to their risk management, insurance, financial services and business development needs. It was formally organized in 1996. The program's origins, however, date back as far as 1977 when a small group of municipally-owned utilities banded together to collectively purchase group liability insurance coverage. www.purma.org
National Weather Association
The National Weather Association (NWA) is a member-led, all inclusive, non-profit, professional association supporting and promoting excellence in operational meteorology and related activities since 1975. It also sponsors an Annual Awards program to recognize excellence, college scholarships, grants to K-12 teachers and other programs. www.nwas.org
National Sheriffs’ Association
The National Sheriff’s Association (NSA), now in its sixty-eighth year of serving law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals of the nation, is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising the level of professionalism among those in the criminal justice field. Through the years, it has provided programs for Sheriffs, their deputies, chiefs of police, and others in the field of criminal justice to perform their jobs in the best possible manner and to better serve the people of their cities, counties or jurisdictions. www.sheriffs.org
Industrial Accident Prevention Association
The Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA) is a not-for-profit, member-driven organization operating in the Province of Ontario since 1917. Representing more than 50,000 member firms and more than 1.5 million workers, IAPA is Canada’s largest health and safety organization and has taken a leading role in the prevention of workplace injury and illness, working for improvement in the health and safety performance of their member firms. Its mission is to improve the quality of life in workplaces and communities they serve by being an internationally recognized leader in providing effective programs, products and services for the prevention of injury and illness. www.iapa.on.ca
International High Technology Crime Investigation Association
The International High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) is designed to encourage, promote, aid and effect the voluntary interchange of data, information, experience, ideas and knowledge about methods, processes, and techniques relating to investigations and security in advanced technologies among its membership. www.htcia.org
Environmental Information Association
The Environmental Information Association, with its beginnings as the National Asbestos Council, has spent 25 years at the forefront in providing the environmental industry with the information needed to remain knowledgeable, responsible, and competitive in the environmental health and safety industry. The mission of the Association’s multi-disciplinary membership is to collect, generate and disseminate information concerning environmental health hazards to occupants of buildings, industrial sites and other facility operations. www.eia-usa.org
International Rescue and Emergency Care Association (IRECA)
IRECA is the oldest international organization of its kind; representing men and women in the United States and Canada. IRECA was founded in 1948 at its first annual convention in Atlantic City, NJ. IRECA is entirely financed by membership dues, grants, endowments, and revenues generated by association-sponsored events. Its mission is to provide its members and the EMS/Rescue community with high quality educational programming and competitions, networking with EMS and Rescue professionals, and representation on regulatory and standards committees to ensure EMS and Rescuer safety and accountability. www.ireca.org
National Association of Emergency Dispatch
The National Association of Emergency Dispatch is a non-profit standard-setting organization promoting safe and effective emergency dispatch services worldwide. Comprised of three allied Academies for medical, fire and police dispatching, it supports first-responder related research, unified protocol application, legislation for emergency call center regulation, and strengths the emergency dispatch community through education, certification, and accreditation. www.emergencydispatch.org
Disaster Research Center
The Disaster Research Center, the first social science research center in the world devoted to the study of disasters, was established at Ohio State University in 1963 and moved to the University of Delaware in 1985. The Center conducts field and survey research on group, organizational and community preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters and other community-wide crises. Its researchers have carried out systematic studies on a broad range of disaster types, including hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous chemical incidents, and plane crashes. It has also done research on civil disturbances and riots, including the 1992 Los Angeles unrest. Past DRC studies have focused on such topics as emergency medical and mental health service delivery in disasters, community responses to acute chemical hazards, and mass evacuation and sheltering. www.udel.edu/DRC/
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