UW Emergency Management
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