Risks & Hazard Assessments
Before you begin to formulate a plan you must first know what hazards may threaten your school district. This information is gathered and assessed through a risk assessment.
Risk assessments are conducted on the basis of identifying and evaluating hazards according to relative likelihood and impact, and prioritized according to overall severity.
In addition to examining
- Natural risk and hazards
- Man-made risk and hazards
- Technological risks and hazards
- Terrorism risks
Our systematic risk and hazard assessment procedure also includes scrutinizing:
- District policies related to threat assessments, bullying programs, etc.
- Existing emergency response procedures
- Data collection, retention and updating procedures
- Communications processes and systems
- Level of community collaboration with external agencies and parents
- ICS applications
- Staff Skill Inventory
- Staff training
- Societal trends
- Crime patterns
- Incident statistics
- Compliance reporting
- Resource requirements, availability and tracking
- Occupational Health and Safety practices
- Risk Management programs
- Emergency Response Plan testing procedures and schedules
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery initiatives
Using this approach, we are able to establish your risk profile.
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Hour-Zero is a member of the Society for Risk Analysis
