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Going “All In” on All Hazards
Author(s) -
Spence Shan,
McLaughlin John W.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2010.tb10023.x
Subject(s) - homeland security , resilience (materials science) , critical infrastructure protection , risk analysis (engineering) , risk management , computer security , asset (computer security) , critical infrastructure , agency (philosophy) , terrorism , business , emergency management , computer science , finance , economics , political science , philosophy , physics , epistemology , thermodynamics , law , economic growth
This article discusses a new methodology, the “all‐hazards” approach, for securing critical utility infrastructure. This method of holistic risk mitigation covers the security of a utility where operational and physical improvements are aimed at providing multiple benefits to the utility. In such a philosophy, response, recovery, and resilience become the major goals, and the cause of the event becomes less important than the effect on the utility. The article discusses efforts at both the state and federal levels that will place increased security requirements and regulations on overall utility operations and management, including: Mutual Aid Disaster Intervention Response Teams (MADIRT); Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (WARN); Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection (RAM‐CAP?); U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Facility Anti‐Terrorism Standards (CFATS); and, AWWA's G430, Standard for Security Practices for Operation and Management.