Reliability in flood incident management planning

This project developed prototype tools for analysing Flood Incident Management and tested them using real-life scenarios.

From:
Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
Published
18 February 2021
Category:
Managing flood incidents
Topics:
Communicating risk, Community response and resilience, Emergency planning, Flood forecasting, Flood risk assessment, Flood warning, Health, safety and wellbeing, Incident management, Modelling, Monitoring and detection
Project status:
Completed
Project code:
SC060063
Date of completion:
31 October 2009

Documents

Reliability in flood incident management planning - summary (218KB) PDF

Reliability in flood incident management planning - technical report (3.6MB) PDF

Reliability in flood incident management planning - guidance (1.8MB) PDF

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Details

This project developed some prototype tools that will help the Environment Agency and other organisations involved in flood planning to work out how Flood Incident Management (FIM) could be improved.

The approaches used included:

  • modelling FIM systems to find where improvements are required
  • performance matrices to examine each element of the system
  • root cause analysis to provide an overview of how reliable FIM processes are

The study tested these approaches using scenarios based on Towyn, on the North Wales coast, which has previously experienced severe flooding.

The project was started in 2006 and completed in 2009.

Published 18 February 2021
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