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The Head of the region Oleg Kuvshinnikov and Minister for Emergency Situations Mr Vladimir PuchkovI discussed implementation of this pilot project in training center in Vytegra town. The system includes a single control point, situational centers in cities and districts of the region, as well as the system emergency call...

Permanent state supervision at hazardous production facilities and hydraulic facilities will be introduced in Russia from July 1, 2012. The corresponding decree was issued by Russian government on May, 5 and signed by Mr Vladimir Putin. Implementation of these powers will be RTN (Rostekhnadzor ). This department is in charge...

State Duma Committee on Land Relations and construction has started preliminary work on the draft bill "About Amendments to the Town Planning Code of the Russian Federation." The bill corrects the amendments made to the "Town Planning Code of Federal Law" № 337 FZ, dated November, 28, 2011, in the...

On May 5, 2012 the Minister of Ministry of Emergency Situations, Mr Sergey Shoigu, signed the decree "About aceptance into the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations of software and hardware complex of information receiving of systems for monitoring and prevention of natural and man-made emergencies" № 257...

The President signed a bill on amendments to the Federal Law "On protection of population and territories from natural and man-made emergencies." The changes affected functioning modes of government forces and Unified system of emergency prevention and management, specifying levels of emergency response. The full text is here: http://www.rg.ru/2012/04/04/zashita-dok.html _______________________________________________________________________________...

Speaking at the meeting of "Round table discussion" on the issues of improving the legislation of the Russian Federation in the field of industrial safety, First Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on Industry, Mr Vladimir Gutenev, noticed that over the last three years in Russia there were dozens of...

The meeting considered proposals for amendments to the Federal Law "On industrial safety of hazardous production facilities" in the interest of improving supervisory and licensing functions . Members of the Public Council under "Rostehnadzor" decided to approve collective initiative of a number of scientific and expert organizations to develop proposals...

JSC "Engineering Center GOChS "BASIS" and JSC "NVP "BOLID" held joint testing of ISO "Orion" and PTK SMES/SMIK interface in order to evaluate options for interfacing ISO "Orion" and PTK SMES/SMIK on construction sites, together with their equipping with monitoring and emergency warning systems (SMES). During the tests, the following...

ISO has published a new standard for emergency management and incident response. The standard is designed to minimize negative consequences of disasters, terrorist attacks and other major incidents, ISO 22320: 2011 "Social Security. Emergency Management. Requirements for incident response" will save lives, mitigate damage and ensure continuity of basic services...