CIKR Learning Series Update 04-29-10

Yesterday DHS updated their Critical Infrastructure Key Resources (CIKR) Learning Series web page to include an announcement about their next webinar: “2010 Hurricane Season: Tools for Understanding Risk”. While this is not strictly a chemical security topic, most chemplant security folks deal with planning for and responding to natural disasters as well. According to the notice this webinar will “highlight HITRAC’s hurricane-related advanced modeling, simulation, and analysis capabilities”. HITRAC is the Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center. It is the “Department's infrastructure-intelligence fusion center”, providing “actionable risk-informed analysis for federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, private sector, and international partners”. Using their risk analysis tools to look at hurricane related risks certainly falls within the new ‘all risk’ focus of the Department. Any chemical facility within hurricane distance of the Atlantic or Gulf coasts might find this informative. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 1:00-2:00pm EST. You can register online.