Lesson Overview

In this lesson, you will learn about the differences between risk and hazard vulnerability assessments. You will learn the basic process for conducting these assessments and the information they provide to assist you in planning your response to an incident.

Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:

Distinguish between risk assessment and hazard vulnerability assessment.
Describe the information that risk and hazard vulnerability assessments can provide.
Describe the process for conducting a hazards analysis.

Lesson List – Introduction to Local Damage Assessment (check mark indicating completion of lesson), Hazard Analysis (arrow indicating current lesson), Planning the Damage Assessment Program, Training and Exercises, Operations, Data Collection and Analysis.

This lesson should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.

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