Health Risk Assessment HRA Workshop Guide What is

Health Risk Assessment (HRA): Workshop Guide

What is an HRA? An HRA identifies and ranks the hazards in your community according to the following equation: 2

What questions does an HRA answer? How likely is it that this hazard will turn into an event? What impact would this event have on the public’s health? What measures do we have in place to mitigate this risk? 3

Why are we doing an HRA? Grant • 2011 -2012 Statement of Work for local health departments • Requirement for partnership and collaboration Funding • Documents risk for funding requests and justifications • Future grant alignment and partnership requirements • Identifies gaps in funding needs for preparedness initiatives Planning • Health Risk Assessment (HRA) linked to public health preparedness capabilities • Coordinates and improves county planning 4

How does the HRA relate to an HVA? HVA Planning Exercises Mitigation HRA 5

How does this benefit my county? Strategic planning Rethinking preparedness Partnership building • Prioritization of resources • Inventory of strengths • Documentation for funding requests and justifications • How do we define mitigation? • How do we define preparedness? • Engaging partners outside of preparedness and public health • Aligning with other assessments to enhance efficiency 6

What will I get from this process? ü A county health preparedness profile ü GIS resources ü Fulfill a grant requirement for community participation/partnership ü Identify areas for improvement in agency plans ü Identify strengths in agency plans ü Document baseline preparedness to assess progress ü Learn about the preparedness perspectives of different agencies 7

What is your role in this process? Represent Contribute Commit 8

Questions? 9

Housekeeping 10

Paperwork • Sign-in • Non-disclosure agreement – Please complete now • Evaluation will be sent out via Survey. Monkey – Please include your e-mail address on the sign-in sheet 11

Part I: Hazard Prioritization Tool 12

Step 1: Identify additional hazards • Review list of hazards and definitions (10 minutes) • Hazard = initial source of danger (hurricane vs. flood – separate hazards) 13

Step 2: Discussion and Consensus • 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 14

Step 3: Rank hazards (30 minutes) • 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 15

PARTICIPANT BREAK 16

Part II: Impact Planning Tool 17

Step 1: Fill-out impact worksheet • 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 18

General indicator scale 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 19

Part III: Mitigation Planning Tool 20

Step 1: Community mitigation • As a group (all workshop participants), fill-out the community mitigation worksheet 21

Step 2: Agency 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 22

Part V: Next Steps 23

HRA Project Timeline Toolkit Development and Testing Toolkit Training and Implementation Key Dates: LHD Workshops/Assessments Results due via Survey. Monkey State analysis Analysis due to CDC Final report to partners Regional report back Strategic planning State-level Analysis and Report Toolkit revision Late May-June 2012 June 29 th July 2012 8/8/2012 September/October 2012 Fall 2012/Spring 2013 24

Please return the following: • • • Blank forms Non-disclosure agreements Worksheet 1: Hazard Prioritization Worksheet 2: Impact Worksheet 3: Mitigation 25

Thank you! 26