Abstract. On August 14, 2003, a cascading outage of transmission and generation facilities in the North American Eastern Interconnection resulted in a blackout of most of New York state as well as parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada. On September 23, 2003, nearly four million customers lost power in eastern Denmark and southern Sweden following a cascading outage that struck Scandinavia. Days later, a cascading outage between Italy and the rest of central Europe left most of Italy in darkness on September 28. These major blackouts are among the worst power system failures in the last few decades. The Power System Stability and Power System Stability Controls Subcommittees of the IEEE PES Power System Dynamic Performance Committee sponsored an all day panel session with experts from around the world. The experts described their recent work on the investigation of grid blackouts. The session offered a unique forum for discussion of possible root causes and necessary steps to reduce the risk of blackouts. This white paper presents the major conclusions drawn from the presentations and ensuing discussions during the all day session, focusing on the root causes of grid blackouts. This paper presents general conclusions drawn by this Committee together with recommendations based on lessons learned.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public to take this opportunity to comment on a revision of a currently approved information collection. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice seeks comments concerning the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP). The NSGP provides funding support for security related enhancements to nonprofit organizations that are at high risk of a terrorist attack.
Scope: Standard provides an overview of policies, processes, and protocols that organizations can adopt to help prevent threatening behavior and violence affecting the workplace and better respond to and resolve security incidents. Standard describes the implementation of a Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention Program, and protocols for effective incident management and resolution. Standard also includes an annex on Active Assailants which provides actionable information and guidance relative to prevention, intervention, and response to incidents involving an active assailant/active shooter. It describes security design considerations, security protocols and response strategies as well as the procedures for detecting, assessing, managing, and neutralizing immediately life-threatening behavior intended or perpetrated by an active assailant/active shooter, either acting alone or in a group.
Project Need: Workplace violence, in its many forms, presents one of the most challenging security and personnel safety problems that an organization can face. This standard provides information and practical methods that will enable an organization to develop an effective and informed approach to prevention, intervention and response, including incidents involving active assailants.
Stakeholders: Organizations of all sizes and types: Human resources, legal counsel, business owners, and executive level managers; occupational safety and health personnel; union leaders; employee assistance programs; law enforcement; clinicians and service providers in the mental health field; insurers and practitioners who specialize in threat management and violence prevention; public relations/corporate communications and risk management and crisis management professionals; professional security practitioners and consultants; risk and resilience management practitioners; the global business community; not-for-profit organizations and foundations; educational institutions; government agencies and organizations.
Revisions were completed and the 2020 edition is listed on the ASIS standards bibliography:
For the 2020 revision, the work is done. We have added this document to our tracking algorithm and maintain it on the standing agenda of our periodic Security and Risk teleconferences. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
We encourage our colleagues responsible for workspace safety in education communities to participate in the ASIS standards development process by communicating directly with Alexandria Virginia, Aivelis Opicka, standards@asisonline.org, (703) 518-1517.
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A BILL: TO direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to take certain actions to enhance the representation of the United States and promote United States leadership in communications standards-setting bodies, and for other purposes.
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New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwBpic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
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