Comments on: New Report: Homeland Security Department Needs To Improve Risk Analysis Capabilities & Methods http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2010/09/21/new-report-homeland-security-department-needs-to-improve-risk-analysis-capabilities-methods/ A Citizen’s Eye View of Public Preparedness Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:57:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Claire B. Rubin http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2010/09/21/new-report-homeland-security-department-needs-to-improve-risk-analysis-capabilities-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-81468 Claire B. Rubin Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:07:18 +0000 http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/?p=13090#comment-81468 One can download just the Exec. Summary, which is less than 20 pages. DHS has some work to do, according to the report. One can download just the Exec. Summary, which is less than 20 pages.

DHS has some work to do, according to the report.

]]> By: David Wild http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2010/09/21/new-report-homeland-security-department-needs-to-improve-risk-analysis-capabilities-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-81455 David Wild Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:28:29 +0000 http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/?p=13090#comment-81455 Sorry the URL got mashed in the last post, here it is: http://allhazards.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-do-you-really-need-in-your.html Sorry the URL got mashed in the last post, here it is: http://allhazards.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-do-you-really-need-in-your.html

]]> By: David Wild http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/2010/09/21/new-report-homeland-security-department-needs-to-improve-risk-analysis-capabilities-methods/comment-page-1/#comment-81454 David Wild Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:27:15 +0000 http://incaseofemergencyblog.com/?p=13090#comment-81454 Thanks for posting this, an interesting read (at least the summary which is as far as I got). There are three gaps which spring to mind: first how to prepare for the "unknown unknowns" as Donald Rumsfield would say (or maybe the not-so-well-known unknowns): for instance, who had infrastructure failure in their hazard analysis before 2003?; second, how to balance and differentiate planning for events where we have prior knowledge of their impact (hurricanes, floods, etc) with never-happened-before-but-catastrophic events (prolonged power outage, nuclear attack, public health catastrophe); third, how to make all this comprehensible for Joe Citizen so we can all know what to prepare for and how (I recently blogged suggesting that people should do household hazard analysis before deciding what to have in their emergency kit: http://allhazards.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-do-you-really-need-in-your.html). Thanks for posting this, an interesting read (at least the summary which is as far as I got). There are three gaps which spring to mind: first how to prepare for the “unknown unknowns” as Donald Rumsfield would say (or maybe the not-so-well-known unknowns): for instance, who had infrastructure failure in their hazard analysis before 2003?; second, how to balance and differentiate planning for events where we have prior knowledge of their impact (hurricanes, floods, etc) with never-happened-before-but-catastrophic events (prolonged power outage, nuclear attack, public health catastrophe); third, how to make all this comprehensible for Joe Citizen so we can all know what to prepare for and how (I recently blogged suggesting that people should do household hazard analysis before deciding what to have in their emergency kit: http://allhazards.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-do-you-really-need-in-your.html).

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