Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Plan
for more details on formulating and priori-
tizing your goals.
Sample Mitigation Goals and Objectives for
Terrorism and Technological Hazard Miti-
gation
Goal 1: Reduce the community's risk of
exposure to hazardous materials.
Objective 1: Install security measures at the
anhydrous ammonia transfer and storage
facility.
Objective 2: Increase the level of security of
the facility using landscape design, lighting,
and vehicle barriers.
Objective 3: Assess feasibility of hardening
product storage and handling infrastructures.
Goal 2: Protect
Goals and objectives
help determine where
efforts and resources should be focused to
maximize the effectiveness of mitigation-related
activities. Whenever possible, mitigation goals
and objectives should be multi-hazard in nature
in order to provide the most comprehensive
protection to your community or state. In addi-
tion to brainstorming, the planning team can
identify additional goals and objectives in the
following ways:
Review existing plans.
Review existing
mitigation, comprehensive, and emer-
gency plans, building upon and/or modi-
fying existing initiatives to maximize
coordination between plans and minimize
conflicts and duplication of effort. To
the extent possible, existing plans should
be used to address the special problems
posed by technological and other manmade
hazards rather than generating new, stand-
alone documents.
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the community's water
supply.
Objective 1: Install security measures at the city
water treatment plant.
Objective 2: Secure all remote pump facilities.
Objective 3: Monitor for radiological, biolog-
ical, and chemical contaminants.
Goal 3: Ensure that the city government has
reliable communications systems.
Objective 1: Update the telecommunications
capabilities of city government offices.
Objective 2: Create redundant/backup capa-
bility for landline telephone system.
Objective 3: Develop off-site backup of infor-
mation technology systems.
Goal 4: Reduce risk to critical government
facilities.
Objective 1: Increase vehicle standoff distance
from the Emergency Operations Center.
Objective 2: Restrict parking and vehicle access
to the underground parking garage at City
Hall.
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Solicit public opinions.
Including the
community in identifying goals and objec-
tives will help ensure buy-in when mitiga-
tion actions are selected, and both the media
and the Internet can be valuable communi-
cation tools. There are a number of methods
for gauging public opinion:
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Establish working groups or advisory
committees
Hold town hall meetings
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Administer surveys
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Hold facilitated meetings with commu-
nity representatives
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While all of these methods can be effective on
their own, it may be advantageous to combine
multiple strategies, such as surveys and town
hall meetings, in order to obtain the advantages
of both a structured questionnaire as well as a
free-flowing discussion.
Step 2: Identify and Prioritize Mitigation
Actions
Once you have developed goals and objectives for
mitigation, you should identify specific actions to
