The relationship between community, hazards and the environment

A risk assessment can be performed on a community, geographical area or activity. For example, we could analyse the hazards and asses the risks in a town, rural area or administrative region, or a geographically distinct area, we could look at an organisation, or we could look at an industrial, commercial or recreational activity. These are just a few of the areas to which the risk assessment process could be applied.

From now on I will use the term 'community' to refer to any of the areas to which a risk assessment is applied, whether it be community, organisation or activity, etc.

I would like you to start thinking about your project for this subject. You need to conduct a risk assessment project and prepare a risk assessment report which will be developed through two assignments.

Forum activity Carefully re-read information about Assignments 1 and 2 in the Subject Outline. Think about the community you will chose as the basis for your risk assessment. Write down details of the community that will be the subject of your risk assessment. Throughout the many years this subject has been conducted, we have seen a wide variety of communities selected as the focus for the risk assessments undertaken. I would now ask you to post a copy of your chosen community's details on the subject's online forum. You will be amazed at the breadth and variety of communities chosen by cohort members in this subject.

What you have written down will form part of the 'scope' of your assignments. Now let us consider how your community is related to hazards and the environment. It was John Donne who said ' no man is an island, complete unto himself '. And so it is with a community. As this diagram shows a community has a very close relationship with its environment and its hazards.

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