Purpose: To work through elements of the impact that will affect the management of the plan. Remember, the question is not what exists, but what is significant. Major Systems Subsystems Significant Impact Characteristics Effects on the Community Key aspects of a Sample parts of each Using research and discussion, list the information about your area that For each piece of information, detail its risk for your community or your operations. How society. aspect. will matter for your response, by system could it make what you’re doing harder? Political Government How will your political leadership react? Will the power base of Will you be able to conduct a science-based response? Will organization Political Parties the community be affected? partnerships be affected? Unions NGOs Response Leadership Are specific elements of your response capacity likely to be What operations will you have to scale back given these impacts? Will leadership Resources Resources affected? Will your staff be available? need more depth? Are alternate sites or equipment needed? (“Military” in original text) Economic Production Will the business productivity in the community be affected? Will Will monetary resources for the response be available? Will economic conditions Distribution this cause evacuation? Could businesses close long-term, hurting lower response rates for your interventions? Will communities be unable to Retail the vitality of the community? recover because of economic impacts? Investment Social Identity Will the way people think about themselves or the government be Will your operation have problems partnering with the community or soliciting Basic Needs affected? Will they trust each other or the guidance you create? volunteers? Will there be difficulties overcoming mistrust? Institutions What institutions will the turn to for support and how might those Affinity Groups be affected? Infrastructure Utilities Will keys operations in the community be impacted? Alternatively, Will your staff face problems that prohibit them from working? Will the lack of Transportation might they choose to shut down? Will this create a lack of supply, infrastructure create health or medical issues? Industry electricity or transportation for victims? How will the type and Public Facilities scope of buildings affect the incident?
Purpose: To work through elements of the impact that will affect the management of the plan. Remember, the question is not what exists, but what is significant. Major Systems Subsystems Significant Impact Characteristics Effects on the Community Key aspects of a society. Sample parts of each aspect. Using research and discussion, list the information about your area that will matter for your response, by system For each piece of information, detail its risk for your community or your operations. How could it make what you’re doing harder? Political Government Political Parties Unions NGOs How will your political leadership react? Will the power base of the community be affected? Will you be able to conduct a science-based response? Will organization partnerships be affected? Response Resources (“Military” in original text) Leadership Resources Are specific elements of your response capacity likely to be affected? Will your staff be available? What operations will you have to scale back given these impacts? Will leadership need more depth? Are alternate sites or equipment needed? Economic Production Distribution Retail Investment Will the business productivity in the community be affected? Will this cause evacuation? Could businesses close long-term, hurting the vitality of the community? Will monetary resources for the response be available? Will economic conditions lower response rates for your interventions? Will communities be unable to recover because of economic impacts? Social Identity Basic Needs Institutions Affinity Groups Will the way people think about themselves or the government be affected? Will they trust each other or the guidance you create? What institutions will the turn to for support and how might those be affected? Will your operation have problems partnering with the community or soliciting volunteers? Will there be difficulties overcoming mistrust? Infrastructure Utilities Transportation Industry Public Facilities Will keys operations in the community be impacted? Alternatively, might they choose to shut down? Will this create a lack of supply, electricity or transportation for victims? How will the type and scope of buildings affect the incident? Will your staff face problems that prohibit them from working? Will the lack of infrastructure create health or medical issues?
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