Window Cleaners in Buenos Aires

Source: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe, 8th November 2007, Photo #160500. www.unmultimedia.org accessed September 2010

We need to understand the ideas and concepts that are in current use, some of which can enhance our own ideas. You may have a preference for some ideas, concepts and processes and have reasons for your preferences. It is important as part of your academic development that you develop your own ideas, preferences and a rational basis for your conclusions. So feel free to express different opinions in your assignment work, and also be ready and able to provide a cohesive argument to support your conclusions.

Risk Management historically was about insurance risk calculations, but in the last few years it has been applied to a number of differing areas, including the Australian Public Service, the British Health Service and also internationally in Emergency and Disaster Management.

A natural extension of the application of Risk Management to Emergency Management is to apply it to the various elements including our current subject, i.e. Recovery Management.

This is a good time for you to re-familiarise yourself with the Hazard Analysis Process, with the caveat that monitoring, review, communication and consultation take place at every stage in the process.