AWWA G440:2017 pdf download.Emergency Preparedness Practices
The following defnitions shall apply in this standard:
1. All hazards: An approach for prevention, protection, preparedness, response, and recovery that addresses a full range of present threats and hazards, including but not limited to man-made threats, natural hazards, and dependency and proximity hazards.
2. Asset: An item of value or importance. In the context of critical water, wastewater, and reclaimed water infrastructure, an asset is something of impor- tance or value that if targeted, exploited, destroyed, or incapacitated could result in injury, death, or economic damage to the community; fnancial damage to the owner of the asset; destruction of property; or environmental damage or could profoundly damage a utility’s prestige and public confdence. Assets may include physical elements (tangible property), cyber elements (information and communi- cation systems), and human elements (critical knowledge and functions of people).
3. Consequences: Te immediate short- and long-term efects of a malev- olent attack or natural, technological, or human-caused incident. These effects include losses sufered by the owner of the asset and by the community served by that asset.
4. First responder: Tose individuals who in the early stages of an incident are responsible for the protection and preservation of life, property, evidence, and the environment, including emergency response providers. As defned in Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101(6)), this includes federal, state, and local gov- ernmental and nongovernmental emergency public safety, fre, law enforcement, emergency response, emergency medical (including hospital emergency facilities), and related personnel, agencies, and authorities. The latter include public works and other skilled support personnel (such as equipment operators) that provide immediate support services during prevention, response, and recovery operations.
5. Hazard: A condition or situation that is potentially dangerous or harm- ful, often the root cause of an unwanted outcome.
6. Incident: An occurrence or event (natural or human caused) that requires a response to protect life, property, continued service, the environment, and customer confdence. Incidents can, for example, include major disasters, emergencies, terrorist attacks, terrorist threats, wildfres, foods, hazardous mate- rial spills, nuclear accidents, aircraft accidents, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tropical storms, war-related disasters, power outages, public health and medical emergencies, and other occurrences requiring an emergency response.AWWA G440 pdf download.