Risk Assessment

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General Healthcare Community Risk Assessment

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This Healthcare Risk Assessment Tool is based on existing hazard and vulnerability assessment tools, such as the Kaiser Permanente HVA tool and the UCLA Center for Public Health and Disaster Hazard Risk Assessment Instrument. This is specific to healthcare facilities and will take an hour or more to complete.

This assessment has three main hazard sections to complete:

  • Section 1: Natural Hazards (14 hazards to assess)
  • Section 2: Human-Caused Hazards (10 hazards to...
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General LPHA Community Risk Assessment

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Course Summary

Risk assessments
are a vital source of baseline information for preparedness planning. These
tools will provide an opportunity to better understand potential risks from the
identified hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities and to better prepare for those
potential events.

The identified
hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities are broken into three main categories:

  1. natural hazards
  2. human-caused hazards
  3. ...
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Community Partnering: A Risk Assessment and Emergency Operations Planning Scenario

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This course provides guidance on the fundamentals of community-based planning, from contributing to a risk assessment to developing emergency operations plans (EOP) and engaging the whole community in addressing all risks and hazards. The course is intended for local public health administrators and local county emergency managers.

Intended Audience

local public health administrators and local county emergency managers

Learning Objectives:

After completing...

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