Integrating local personnel response and recovery capacity: A conceptual model for small to medium enterprise hazard risk analysis
Abstract
Small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) are vulnerable to disasters because of their limited ability to duplicate, separate and diversify their risk. SMEs must therefore rely on local personnel and resources to plan for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Unfortunately, community-level planning does not readily incorporate SMEs effectively. SMEs are thus forced to plan in isolation as current hazard risk analysis (HRA) models do not adequately account for the capacity of local personnel to respond to emergent hazards. Accordingly, this study posits an easy-to-use SME disaster impact model for HRA that combines probability theory and statistical analysis to integrate local personnel capacity. The model is designed specifically for SME usage; although, it can be applied to any organisation regardless of size. This study proposes a standardised HRA probability and consequence sequence based on the analysis of over 400 locations and risks that determined the model’s reliability in practice. The posited SME disaster impact model for HRA effectively integrates vulnerability and local personnel capacity with services, personnel and equipment to optimise SME disaster response and recovery capacity.
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Author's Biography
Steven Haynes is an assistant professor of practice and Director of the Risk Management and Insurance Program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Mr Haynes has over a decade of continuity and disaster risk management experience and served proudly in the US Navy. He is also a PhD candidate at Oklahoma State University, where his research interests include risk analysis, organisations under crisis, mixed methods research design and disaster science.
Tony Mcaleavy has taught in the USA, the UK, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. Dr McAleavy has broad emergency and continuity management experience as a coastguard and ambulance service officer, and local government civil contingencies manager. His teaching and research spans mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery with a core focus on command and control, and interoperability.
Citation
Haynes, Steven and Mcaleavy, Tony (2021, September 1). Integrating local personnel response and recovery capacity: A conceptual model for small to medium enterprise hazard risk analysis. In the Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, Volume 15, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.69554/HAEM5652.
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