These are activities that reduce the severity of incident impacts. Our goal is to focus on the primary hazards that are most likely to impact UMBC as determined by risk assessments.
Our Hazard Vulnerability Risk Assessment (HVRA) identifies the most likely sources of harm to the UMBC community. These are the types of emergencies where we want to focus our preparedness efforts. Each hazard receives an overall risk score in our assessment. Risk combines the likelihood of a hazard and its impact:
- Primary Overall Hazard: Utility or Infrastructure Outage has the highest overall R score.
- Primary Natural Hazard: Severe Storm (tornadoes, high winds, severe thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tropical storms).
- Primary Accidental Hazard: Utility or Infrastructure Outage (water, power, heating or cooling systems, elevators, or fire alarm and sprinkler system outages).
- Primary Intentional Hazard: Crime Against Property (any form of theft or intentional damage caused to property owned by an individual or owned by the University).
- HVRA Overview – August 2023