All-Hazards Approaches to Terrorism: Putting Risk into Perspective William L. Waugh, Jr., PhD, Professor of Public AdministrationEmergency

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All-Hazards Approaches to Terrorism: Putting Risk into Perspective

Author            : William L. Waugh, Jr., PhD

Designation    :Professor of Public Administration

Company        : Georgia State University

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For most organizations, public and private, the risk of terrorism is extremely difficult to assess. As a consequence, it is difficult to justify major investments of scarce human and financial resources. Terrorism experts will recommend vulnerability analyses to identify weaknesses in security – just as IT experts will recommend needs assessments to determine where technology investments should be made. The reality is that most individuals, communities, and organizations are not at great risk from terrorism, but some are. Is there a reason why one might be targeted or is one located close to a likely target? If one is at risk directly or indirectly, by all means invest in greater security precautions. But, the investment should be designed to reduce risks of all sorts. The value of the “all-hazards” approach is that it encourages attention to all the significant risks that one might face. For most individuals and organizations, crime and workplace violence are more certain risks than terrorism.

Designing programs to reduce exposure to violence by criminals, clients, employees, and other intruders, including terrorists, provides what local emergency managers call “dual use.” Making general emergency plans that can be adapted to a wide variety of circumstances, many kinds of emergency, can address lesser as well as greater risk - and it is also more cost effective than designer plans that only address one kind of emergency. The argument here is to assess all the risks to life and property and, then, create general “all-hazard” plans that can be adapted. Plans never fit circumstances completely and adaptation, innovation and improvisation are always required.

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