Reducing your risk / mitigation

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 hazards
• 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, HIVA
• Capital Projects Office major construction
• Earthquake Readiness Advisory Committee report
• Earthquake bracing services
• Shift happens – secure your space
• Home preparedness – getting ready
• Business hazard hunt