ISC has recognized expertise in conducting risk assessments and vulnerability analyses. Using proven risk assessment methodologies supported by research and lessons-learned, ISC assists clients in the development of reputable models and processes for collecting and analyzing information on individual risks to communities. A community’s hazard risk, vulnerability, and capability assessments are critical documents that define a community’s strategic common operational picture to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate against natural or man-made disasters. A thorough vulnerability analysis and risk assessment serves as the foundation for other emergency management related initiatives and ensure increased programmatic effectiveness and efficiencies. For this reason, ISC values a rigorous approach to vulnerability analysis and risk assessments, which will provide a basis for promoting critical aspects of a client’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (CEMP).
- Comprehensive Emergency Preparedness and Planning Development:
ISC incorporates a framework that is founded upon a researched assessment of a community's profile, risks, vulnerabilities and capabilities, which provides the essential building blocks for an effective Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (CEMP).
- Risk, Vulnerability, and Capability Assessment:
As part of our clients’ overall risk assessment, ISC provides an analysis and modeling of all-hazards. ISC has seasoned veterans with insight and experience in the development of natural, technological, and political hazard vulnerability analysis and risk assessments. Specifically, ISC ensures that Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) models:
» Capture pertinent information concerning HIRA based upon policy, directives and current planning needs.
» Include a proven methodology that will offer uniformity between hazard categories and a broad array of planning considerations that will provide a foundation for, and integration of, other emergency planning doctrine.
» Allow flexibility to accurately and systematically integrate the vulnerability assessments by utilizing a methodology that can be applied universally to all communities, facilities, and systems.
» Provides consistency between Federal guidance and methodological approaches while addressing the unique characteristics and attributes of the client’s communities.
- Education, Training, and Exercise Program Development:
ISC recognizes that a community’s Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) is the fundamental building block for the four core functions of emergency management and requires routine evaluation, education, and training.
- Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Recovery Technical Support:
ISC employs a best-practices approach that increases a jurisdiction’s steady-state of readiness by identifying and prioritizing mitigation and recovery actions based on our proven risk, vulnerability, and capability analyses and models, which are fundamental components of the comprehensive emergency management planning process.
- Committee and Workgroup Governance Development:
ISC provides expertise to facilitate the coordination of all relevant stakeholders to effectively create the formation of a HIRA Model Evaluation Team, which are typically tasked with the responsibility to collaboratively determine the most effective HIRA model for application in their respective community/region. .
- State-Level Risk and Vulnerability Analysis:
ISC developed a state-level risk and vulnerability analysis for the Seminole Tribe of Florida (STOF), the world’s largest Native American tribe. The STOF has public and commercial assets in seven locations consisting of six gaming facilities with an estimated value of over $2 billion. The state-level risk and vulnerability analysis was incorporated into the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan, providing a Situational Assessment that described potential hazard considerations, geographic characteristics, economic resiliency, and social vulnerabilities, such as land use patterns and demographic distributions.
The state-level risk and vulnerability analysis included a unified, comprehensive approach to analyze all hazards, including natural vulnerabilities, disruptions caused by technical failures, and terrorist attacks to critical community and economic assets. The analysis also fulfilled all regulatory requirements as defined by Part 302 of the Robert T. Stafford Act: Civil Defense-State and Local Emergency Management Assistance Program and Chapter 353, Florida Statute State Emergency Management Act.
- City of Chicago:
ISC incorporated the City of Chicago All Hazard Risk Assessment into the Chicago Department of Public Health’s Comprehensive Emergency Management Program, providing a foundation for all-hazards planning. ISC provided critical enhancements to the Chicago All Hazard Risk Assessment, building upon the document that was authored by ISC staff in 2005.
- DuPage County:
ISC expanded upon the risk analysis developed in the DuPage County Hazard Mitigation Plan, providing an all hazard and comprehensive focus that can be integrated into county-wide Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) which was designed in accordance with IL Title 29, Section 301 as mandated for a state-designated Emergency Service and Disaster Agency (ESDA).
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