Health Risk Assessment (HRA): Workshop Guide

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What is an HRA?

An HRA identifies and ranks the hazards in your community according to the following equation:

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What questions does an HRA answer?

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Why are we doing an HRA?

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How does the HRA relate to an HVA?

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How does this benefit my county?

A county health preparedness profile GIS resources Fulfill a grant requirement for community

participation/partnership Identify areas for improvement in agency

plans Identify strengths in agency plans Document baseline preparedness to assess

progress Learn about the preparedness perspectives

of different agencies

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What will I get from this process?

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What is your role in this process?

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Questions?

Housekeeping

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• Sign-in• Non-disclosure agreement– Please complete now

• Evaluation will be sent out via SurveyMonkey– Please include your e-mail address on

the sign-in sheet

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Paperwork

Part I: Hazard Prioritization Tool

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• Review list of hazards and definitions (10 minutes)

• Hazard = initial source of danger (hurricane vs. flood – separate hazards)

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Step 1: Identify additional hazards

• What additional hazards did you identify (if any)?

• How would you define these hazards?

• Voting/consensus– Does this hazard fit the definition of a

hazard? (Y/N)– A new hazard must have a majority vote

to be included in list

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Step 2: Discussion and Consensus

• Add any additional hazards to Worksheet 1

• Rank hazards using the instructions and definitions provided

• Complete this form individually• Turn in completed worksheet to

facilitator

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Step 3: Rank hazards (30 minutes)

PARTICIPANT BREAK

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Part II: Impact Planning Tool

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• Using the top hazard identified by the group in Part I, each agency should fill-out a separate, sector-specific worksheet

• If more than one representative from your agency is present, please return a single worksheet for your agency to the facilitator

• Public health and “other” agencies will fill-out a single impact worksheet as a group

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Step 1: Fill-out impact worksheet

The 0-4 rating scale is specific to each indicator; however, 0-4 generally means the following:

•0 = None: Added impact of disaster is negligible•1 = Minimal: Adequately handled by agency using

existing resources•2 = Moderate: Stretches capacity of existing resources; draws upon mutual aid/Memorandums of

Understanding (MOUs) within the county•3 = Severe: Needs far exceed capacity of local authority and must call on surrounding counties for aid•4 = Catastrophic: Available resources are overwhelmed, requiring state or federal assistance

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General indicator scale

Part III: Mitigation Planning Tool

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• As a group (all workshop participants), fill-out the community mitigation worksheet

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Step 1: Community mitigation

• For your agency, fill-out the mitigation worksheet

• If there is more than one representative from your agency, please return a single completed worksheet to the form checker/facilitator

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Step 2: Agency mitigation

Part V: Next Steps

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HRA Project Timeline

Key Dates:LHD Workshops/Assessments Late May-June 2012Results due via SurveyMonkey June 29th

State analysis July 2012Analysis due to CDC 8/8/2012Final report to partners September/October 2012Regional report back Fall 2012Strategic planning Fall 2012/Spring 2013

• Blank forms• Non-disclosure agreements• Worksheet 1: Hazard Prioritization • Worksheet 2: Impact• Worksheet 3: Mitigation

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Please return the following:

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Thank you!