Reduce Your Risks

Why is reducing your risks to hazards important?

By identifying and taking advantage of risk reduction opportunities in advance of a disaster, you and your office are in better position to recover quickly. Also risk reduction measures offer many benefits that include:

• Reducing vulnerability to future hazard events.
• Constructing safer facilities for the campus community.
• Providing faster restoration of important operations and systems.
• Saving time and money...

Less damage means the cost to repair and replace is reduced.

Mitigation

• UW Hazard Mitigation Plan
• UW Hazard Identification and Vulnerability Assessment (PDF)
• Capital Projects Office Major Construction
• Earthquake Readiness Advisory Committee report
• Earthquake Bracing Services
• Shift Happens - Secure Your Space