Poster: The UK Natural Hazards Partnership
Pope Vicky Met Office Natural Hazards, resilience "An extreme weather event or other natural hazard such as flooding, drought, cold, heat, earthquakes and volcanic ash has the potential to cause adverse impacts on human health along with the impacts on utilities such as electricity and water, and transport. Sharing information effectively between different partners should enable organisations to provide an early warning of potential incidents, offer a specific technical response to a major incident and provide consistent, coherent information to the wider community. The Natural Hazards Partnership aims to bring together expertise across the UK's leading Public Sector Agencies to provide responders with a focal point for hazard information and advice. The Partnership is currently developing ways to work together to provide joint multi hazard services. These include a pilot for a daily Multi-hazard Strategic Assessment sheet, offering responders at a glance, a forward look summary for a range of hazards. We are also creating a Hazard Impact Model. Building resilience in our infrastructure is important to reduce our vulnerability to hazards and threats. This can be achieved, once the hazards and threats are understood, by for example: improving protection; encouraging ability in organisations and their infrastructure networks and systems to absorb shocks and recover; and enabling an effective local and national response to emergencies. I will describe the setting up of the UK Natural Hazards Partnership and discuss the important role as it starts to develop tools to help organisations across many sectors to fulfil their responsibilities in building and maintaining resilient infrastructure."
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