Risk Management Practices in Local Communities: Five Alternatives (Alternative Rick Management Policies for State and Local Goernments)

摘要

The current state of risk management practices in local communities in the United States is discussed and some alternatives to present policies are offered. The concept of risk management as presently used in local government is examined and results of a survey of local and state risk managers is presented. It is shown that local risk managers do not tend to think of risk quantitatively and that their principal activities are directed toward compliance of standards set elsewhere. The identification of new hazards and estimation of risks is shown to be largely absent from local and to some extent state levels of government. It is suggested that local communities should be given more timely scientific data concerning risk and should be freed from Federal and state policies mandating levels of acceptable risk.