Prevention
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Defining prevention makes it important to analyse where the major risks for your city, institution or enterprise are in order to define procedures that will help you prevent possible accidents and catastrophes. So prevention depends on the preparedness of a group of people etc. for risks, crises, hazards and disasters that are likely to take place. Preparedness can help to minimise the adverse effects of hazards and to ensure timely appropriate and effective delivery of relief or rescue through effective precautionary actions. Prevention is one of four key elements for emergency situations, together with mitigation, response and recovery it can help reduce negative effects of emergency situations. Prevention can be social intervention, awareness training, modelling situations for early warning systems, setting up emergency working groups, prepared platforms and solid institutions for communication and data sharing and much more. It should be possible to find risk landscapes and to translate the data to other levels, such as local, regional, national or European risk landscapes to enable identification with risks, information and communication about them. That way a certain risk culture could be established that could raise human awareness and help make better predictions.
Newsletter 7 on Workshop 6: Risk management and training
