Risk Assessment Process
1. Describe the risk assessment process and how it is an integral part of the All Hazards Approach
The risk assessment process is the progression of steps that organizations go through to identify hazards, evaluates the risks associated with that hazard and come up with ways to eliminate or mitigate the hazard. The main aim of the risk assessment process is to create a safer working environment by removing a hazard or reducing the level of its risk at the workplace by coming up with precautionary and control measures as deemed necessary. The risk assessment process comprises of three fundamental steps. The first step of the risk assessment process is information gathering. Information gathering is important for evaluating the current conditions in an organization in an endeavor to identify the risks. The information-gathering step involved identifying the products used and …show more content…
The Incident Command System is mostly used for temporary disaster management procedures involving multiple agencies all responding to a major incident like a wildfire, or a terrorist attack. In an international emergency response to a disaster, several countries offer their support that comes in form of personnel, facilities and financial aid. In scenario of an emergency response to a disaster, the Incident Command System can be established to coordinate the efforts of multiple international agencies involved in the emergency response. This is because, the Incident Command System establishes a temporary but clear and effective hierarchy structures for the management of funds, facilities, equipment, personnel and communications. The main role of the Incident Command System in this case is to establish a central point of coordinating all emergency response and to avoid the complexity of separate jurisdictions, chain of command and logistics (Coppola,
The risk assessment process is the progression of steps that organizations go through to identify hazards, evaluates the risks associated with that hazard and come up with ways to eliminate or mitigate the hazard. The main aim of the risk assessment process is to create a safer working environment by removing a hazard or reducing the level of its risk at the workplace by coming up with precautionary and control measures as deemed necessary. The risk assessment process comprises of three fundamental steps. The first step of the risk assessment process is information gathering. Information gathering is important for evaluating the current conditions in an organization in an endeavor to identify the risks. The information-gathering step involved identifying the products used and …show more content…
The Incident Command System is mostly used for temporary disaster management procedures involving multiple agencies all responding to a major incident like a wildfire, or a terrorist attack. In an international emergency response to a disaster, several countries offer their support that comes in form of personnel, facilities and financial aid. In scenario of an emergency response to a disaster, the Incident Command System can be established to coordinate the efforts of multiple international agencies involved in the emergency response. This is because, the Incident Command System establishes a temporary but clear and effective hierarchy structures for the management of funds, facilities, equipment, personnel and communications. The main role of the Incident Command System in this case is to establish a central point of coordinating all emergency response and to avoid the complexity of separate jurisdictions, chain of command and logistics (Coppola,