Hazard Mitigation Plans

Risk Management Professionals has extensive experience developing FEMA-approved Hazard Mitigation Plans (HMPs).  HMP development includes the development of a baseline understanding of the natural hazard risks, determining ways to reduce those risks, and prioritizing recommendations for implementation.  An open, public process is used to verify candidate hazards, determine the full impacts throughout the planning area, interface with partner agencies to determine existing mitigation measures, develop possible approaches to projects which will reduce the impacts, and prioritize them for implementation.  The analysis of current vulnerabilities and potential threats results in a prioritized list of recommended improvements and the estimated costs of implementing the improvements.

Our professionals prepare HMPs in accordance with FEMA requirements using the tools provided by FEMA and techniques developed from our background in Qualitative Risk Assessment (QRA), Seismic Safety, and Risk-Based Decision Making (RBDM).  Hazard profiles, including vulnerability to earthquakes, floods, fires, power outages, tsunamis, and dam failure, are developed to serve as the basis for the damage assessment and corresponding loss estimates.  Estimating losses is essential to decision-making, providing the basis for developing mitigation plans and policies, emergency preparedness, and response and recovery planning.