Improving Risk Management in Civil Protection

Overview

Whether you’re looking to brush up your skills, or make better sense of civil protection risk, this course is for you.   

With our experienced Associates, you’ll learn the right way to prepare, design and improve assessments ready for immediate use. Taking a look both strategically and intellectually, the lesson is a mix of practical exercises and group chats as we explore how risk fits into the wider picture of resilience. 

The course also looks at good practice, with a focus on how low-cost improvements can often be made that have an immediate impact. 

The course forms essential training for members of Risk Assessment Working Groups and Local Resilience Forums and is an important part of continued development for all Practitioners.

Aim

To examine risk management in civil protection, in order to improve practice at Local Resilience Forum level.

Objectives

• Apply the model of risk management in civil protection.
• Analyse inter-dependencies and the wider impacts of emergency risks.
• Evaluate Community Risk Registers as instruments of risk communication.
• Suggest ways of improving Community Risk Registers.