What do we call Ourselves?

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What do we call Ourselves?
The George Washington University Institute for
Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management

• Hazards Risk Managers of Course
• Greg Shaw
• GWU ICDRM

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Background
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NRP and NIMS

• Consequence Management - Predominantly an
  emergency management function and included
  measures to protect public health and safety,
  restore essential government services, and
  provide emergency relief to governments,
  businesses, and individuals affected by the
  consequences of terrorism.
• NRP, December 2004.

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Dealing with Risk

• Risk management is fundamental to managing
  the threat, while retaining our quality of life
  and living in freedom. Risk management can guide
  our decision-making as we examine how we can best
  organize to prevent, protect against, respond and
  recover from an attack.
• Secretary Chertoff. Address to business leaders
  at New York University. April 26, 2005

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Emergency Management and Risk

• Emergency management is most simply defined
  as the discipline dealing with risk and risk
  avoidance.
• Chapter 1 of the FEMA Higher Education Project
  electronic text Emergency and Risk Management
  Case Studies Text Book Introduction to Crisis
  and Risk Management Concepts (2004)
• In the simplest terms, emergency management
  is the management of risk so that society can
  live with environmental and technical hazards and
  deal with the disasters that they cause.
• William Waugh, Living with Hazards Dealing with
  Disasters

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The Private Sector and Risk Management

• Widely recognized as a strategic function
• Becoming an umbrella under which crisis
  management and business continuity falls
• C level responsibility

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Dealing with Risk

• What is required is that everyday citizens
  develop both the maturity and the willingness to
  invest in reasonable measures to mitigate that
  risk.
• Stephen Flynn. America the Vulnerable

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Hazards Risk Management
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Hazards

• Events or physical conditions that have the
  potential to cause fatalities, injuries, property
  damage, infrastructure damage, agricultural loss,
  damage to the environment, interruption of
  business, or other types of harm or loss. i
• Defining hazards this way connotes all
  hazards and does not necessarily emphasize just
  natural, technological or human induced
  (intentional/terrorist) events.
• i FEMA. Multi Hazard Identification and
  Assessment. Washington, DC. 1997.

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Risk

• Risk is the product of probability
  (likelihood) and consequences of an event. ii
• This definition implies that risk can be
  controlled by managing probability (through
  mitigation and preparedness) and consequences
  (through mitigation, preparedness, response and
  recovery).
• iiAnsell, J. and F. Wharton. 1992. Risk
  Analysis, Assessment, and Management. John Wiley
  Sons. Chichester. p100.

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Manage

• To take charge or care of (control). iii
• iii Websters Encyclopedic Unabridged
  Dictionary. Gramercy Books. New York, NY. 1898
  Edition.

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Hazards Risk Management

• A continual process that provides a general
  philosophy and a defined and iterative series of
  component parts that be utilized to exercise a
  level of control (management) over the risks
  associated with the hazards facing a community.

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Hazard Risk Management
Communicate and Consult
Establish the Context Objectives Stakeholders Cri
teria Define key elements
Identify the Risks Hazards analysis Vulnerabilit
y analysis
Analyze the Risks Review controls Likelihoods Con
sequences Level of risk
Evaluate the Risks Evaluate risks Rank Risks
Treat the Risks Identify options Select the best
responses Develop risk treatment plan Implement
Monitor and Review
Emergency Management Australia, 2002. Emergency
Risk Management