Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference

1. Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference • A New Approach to Identifying Hazards and Associated Risk to Campus Public Safety October 2014

2. INTRODUCTIONS Margolis Healy and Associates, LLC The National Center for Campus Public Safety Daniel Pascale, CPP Senior Director – Security & Emergency Management Services Christopher Neuwirth, MA, MEP, CEM Manager - Emergency Management Services

3. OBJECTIVES • What are we going to learn and why it matters: • Understand that hazards on and around your campus are critical to effective preparedness activities; • Determine that risk associated with each hazard is necessary to prioritizing planning efforts around each hazard; • Prioritizing hazards ensures that time, money, and resources are allocated properly towards preparedness activities and planning efforts.

4. TAKEAWAYS • What can you immediately use upon returning to your campus: • Resources for conducting an ACTIONABLE hazard, risk, and impact (HVI) assessment based on industry standards; • General principles for analyzing the results of your HVI assessment; • Information on MHA’s novel methodology using data visualizations techniques to gain additional in-depth analysis of HVI assessments.

5. CAMPUS PUBLIC SAFETY • Campus public safety is a challenging concept to assess, • understand and maintain: • Physical: Gates, locks, cameras • Environmental: Natural geography, location, landscape, lights • Policy: Institutional, state, federal • Cultural: Perceptions, demographics, beliefs, attitudes

6. CAMPUS PUBLIC SAFETY • Historically, assessing campus public safety is conducted • using semi-standardized, repurposed tools with varying • degrees of applicability and success: • Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) based on the Kaiser Permanente healthcare HVA model; • Exercises that are scenario-driven and not based on measurable objectives using recognized federal resources; • Physical security assessments that often fail to consider contemporary standards and the campus environment/culture.

7. HVI ASSESSMENTS • Why are we focusing on HVI assessments (HVIA’s)? • We must first identify and qualify the hazards facing our campus before we can develop a strategic plan to prepare for and/or mitigate those hazards. • We must prioritize each hazard because we have a very limited amount of time, money, and people to commit to addressing each hazard. • All subsequent preparedness activities and planning efforts must be conducted thoughtfully based on a validated, objective measurement of risk.

8. HVI ASSESSMENTS • What tools currently exist to conduct HVIA’s and why do they • fall short for strengthening campus public safety? • Google and Excel • Kaiser Permanente HVA • Proprietary solutions from generic “security professionals”

9. HVI ASSESSMENTS • What should we do to adequately prepare for an HVIA? • Review previous assessment results. • Reference 2013 NFPA 1600: The Standard for Emergency Management/Business Continuity Programs. • Participating commitments from leadership and all departments. • Consult with emergency management partners and peer institutions.

10. RADR HVIA • Emergency management experts from Margolis Healy • developed a novel methodology for HVIA’s: • Called The Relational Analysis of Disaster Risk (RADR) • Uses a traditional approach to collect responses • Applies calculations and weights to individuals responses and formulates a propriety metric to each hazard. • Visualizes the results for simple, actionable interpretations.

11. RADR HVIA • The single most important concept to remember when • analyzing HVIA’s: • It’s all about the relationships between hazards and not • the individual scores! • The entire point behind calculating a score is so we can understand • the relationship between scores. This is the missing step is HVIA’s!

12. HVIA COMPARISON • A traditional HVIA may produce results similar to this:

13. HVIA COMPARISON • A simplified example of the RADR HVIA results:

14. RADR HVIA PROCESS • The RADR begins by using a traditional and familiar format: • Representatives from all departments are brought together for several hours. • A comprehensive series of questions are asked by campus emergency management experts and a great discussion ensues. • Responses are recorded for a subsequent analysis, data visualization, and interpretation by the experts and a report is generated with the results for the institution.

15. RADR HVIA PROCESS • The RADR results are then processed to create:

16. RADR PROCESS • The RADR results are then visualized into:

17. NEXT STEPS • What can you do immediately? • Identify what type of HVI assessments have been completed in the past and what were the results? • Identify what planning efforts came as a result. • Review the hazard and function-specific annexes in your campus’ basic emergency operations plan. • Conduct an annual HVIA either internally or contract the responsibility to experts.

18. NEXT STEPS • If you want more information about the security and emergency • management services of Margolis Healy: • Daniel Pascale • DPascale@MargolisHealy.com • www.MargolisHealy.com