Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference
A New Approach to Identifying
Hazards and Associated Risk to
Campus Public Safety
October 2014
INTRODUCTIONS
Margolis Healy and Associates, LLC
The National Center for Campus Public Safety
Daniel Pascale, CPP
Senior Director – Security & Emergency Management Services
Christopher Neuwirth, MA, MEP, CEM
Manager - Emergency Management Services
OBJECTIVES
What are we going to learn and why it matters:
• Understand that hazards on and around your campus are
critical to effective preparedness activities;
• Determine that risk associated with each hazard is necessary
to prioritizing planning efforts around each hazard;
• Prioritizing hazards ensures that time, money, and resources
are allocated properly towards preparedness activities and
planning efforts.
TAKEAWAYS
What can you immediately use upon returning to your campus:
• Resources for conducting an ACTIONABLE hazard, risk, and
impact (HVI) assessment based on industry standards;
• General principles for analyzing the results of your HVI
assessment;
• Information on MHA’s novel methodology using data
visualizations techniques to gain additional in-depth analysis
of HVI assessments.
CAMPUS PUBLIC SAFETY
Campus public safety is a challenging concept to assess,
understand and maintain:
• Physical: Gates, locks, cameras
• Environmental: Natural geography, location, landscape, lights
• Policy: Institutional, state, federal
• Cultural: Perceptions, demographics, beliefs, attitudes
CAMPUS PUBLIC SAFETY
Historically, assessing campus public safety is conducted
using semi-standardized, repurposed tools with varying
degrees of applicability and success:
• Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) based on the
Kaiser Permanente healthcare HVA model;
• Exercises that are scenario-driven and not based on
measurable objectives using recognized federal resources;
• Physical security assessments that often fail to consider
contemporary standards and the campus environment/culture.
HVI ASSESSMENTS
Why are we focusing on HVI assessments (HVIA’s)?
• We must first identify and qualify the hazards facing our
campus before we can develop a strategic plan to prepare for
and/or mitigate those hazards.
• We must prioritize each hazard because we have a very
limited amount of time, money, and people to commit to
addressing each hazard.
• All subsequent preparedness activities and planning efforts
must be conducted thoughtfully based on a validated,
objective measurement of risk.
HVI ASSESSMENTS
What tools currently exist to conduct HVIA’s and why do they
fall short for strengthening campus public safety?
• Google and Excel
• Kaiser Permanente HVA
• Proprietary solutions from generic “security professionals”
HVI ASSESSMENTS
What should we do to adequately prepare for an HVIA?
• Review previous assessment results.
• Reference 2013 NFPA 1600: The Standard for Emergency
Management/Business Continuity Programs.
• Participating commitments from leadership and all
departments.
• Consult with emergency management partners and peer
institutions.
RADR HVIA
Emergency management experts from Margolis Healy
developed a novel methodology for HVIA’s:
• Called The Relational Analysis of Disaster Risk (RADR)
• Uses a traditional approach to collect responses
• Applies calculations and weights to individuals responses and
formulates a propriety metric to each hazard.
• Visualizes the results for simple, actionable interpretations.
RADR HVIA
The single most important concept to remember when
analyzing HVIA’s:
It’s all about the relationships
between hazards and not
the individual scores!
The entire point behind calculating a score is so we can understand
the relationship between scores. This is the missing step is HVIA’s!
HVIA COMPARISON
A traditional HVIA may produce results similar to this:
HVIA COMPARISON
A simplified example of the RADR HVIA results:
RADR HVIA PROCESS
The RADR begins by using a traditional and familiar format:
• Representatives from all departments are brought together for
several hours.
• A comprehensive series of questions are asked by campus
emergency management experts and a great discussion
ensues.
• Responses are recorded for a subsequent analysis, data
visualization, and interpretation by the experts and a report is
generated with the results for the institution.
RADR HVIA PROCESS
The RADR results are then processed to create:
RADR PROCESS
The RADR results are then visualized into:
NEXT STEPS
What can you do immediately?
• Identify what type of HVI assessments have been completed
in the past and what were the results?
• Identify what planning efforts came as a result.
• Review the hazard and function-specific annexes in your
campus’ basic emergency operations plan.
• Conduct an annual HVIA either internally or contract the
responsibility to experts.
NEXT STEPS
If you want more information about the security and
emergency
management services of Margolis Healy:
Daniel Pascale
DPascale@MargolisHealy.com
www.MargolisHealy.com