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'" CABARRus couNTy ~' , <br /> HAZARD ANALYSIS <br /> <br /> I. PURPOSESi This analysis was developed for the purposes shown below. <br /> <br /> A. Enable emergency managers to set priorities and goals commensurate with <br /> <br /> the degree of local public need for protection. <br /> <br /> B. Provide descriptive information on every major hazard affecting a given <br /> <br /> · area and a methodology for comparison for both similar and vastly different <br /> <br /> types of hazards. <br /> <br /> C. Justify management decisions for altering program and staffing assignments <br /> that may vary from previous norms. <br /> <br /> D. Substantiate decisions about resource allocations and justify budget requests. <br /> <br /> E. Encourage identification of technological and research needs in emergency <br /> management. <br /> <br /> F. Provide tools to raise the level of understanding of public officials and to <br /> influence the adoption of prevention/mitigation measures and the expenditure <br /> of resources to do so. <br /> <br /> G. Enable the establishment of a viable national data base of hazard vulner- <br /> ability and other relevant and comparable information for national IEMS <br /> planning. <br /> <br /> H. Be presented and viewed as the foundation for future IEMS activities. <br /> <br /> I. Be sufficiently flexible to acconmlodate con,unities that have already <br /> performed hazard analyses. <br /> <br />II. METHODOLOGY: Hazards analysis is as much "art" as it is "science". That is, <br /> while "science", in many cases, can identify an area of impact, the proba- <br /> bilities, and the forces in effect, emergency managers will always need to <br /> apply their own emergency management expertise as well as a specialized <br /> knowledge of the geopolitical area being analyzed. Since there is an "art" <br /> involved, especially in multihazards analysis, more than one approach to <br /> hazards analysis is viable. Indeed, a hazard analysis can be considered <br /> as the formalized, structured system upon which emergency managers base <br /> their decisions. A basic hazard analysis has four key steps: identifi- <br /> cation of hazards; collection of information; analysis of information; and <br /> the development and preparation of reports. Each of them is important and <br /> needs to be addressed in the hazard analysis process. <br /> <br /> 1 <br /> <br /> <br />