Preparedness Toolkit

Background

Every community should understand the risks it faces. Developing and maintaining an understanding of the variety of risks faced by communities and the Nation, and how this information can be used to build and sustain preparedness, are essential components of the National Preparedness System. By understanding its risks, a community can make smart decisions about how to manage risk, including developing needed capabilities.

Tools

• Additional reference materials include:
  • CPG 201: Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment and Stakeholder Preparedness Review Guide
  • Training: IS-2001: Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA)
    (Currently under revision)
  • Data and Analytical Tools to Support THIRA - Access a suite of publicly available data and analysis tools that support planners in the THIRA process.

Links to the Preparedness Cycle:

Plan: Identifying and assessing risk is integral to both strategic and operational planning. The results of a Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR) and any other risk assessment should be used as a key input in an organization’s planning process.

Strategic and operational planning establishes priorities, identifies expected levels of performance and capability requirements, provides the standard for assessing capabilities, and helps stakeholders learn their roles. All plans need to be risk-informed.

Critical Linkages

• It is important to understand and recognize the natural progression from Identifying and Assessing Risk into the next area of the NPS, Estimating Capability Requirements. CPG 201 addresses this progression by providing guidance on how to estimate resource requirements.

• Core Capabilities – The National Preparedness Goal identifies 32 core capabilities across the five Mission Areas. Core Capabilities are distinct critical elements needed to achieve the goal and execute each Mission Area. Communities use the core capabilities to organize and establish their capability targets in the THIRA/SPR process.