Uncertainties / Challenges
Recognition by practioners and policy makers alike that it is nearly impossible to protect against, let alone anticipate, all major disasters, incidents or all acts of terrorism
Systems Surety
Protection is now more a demand for resilient engineered systems providing reliable and functional integration of physical, operational and cyber infrastructures
Requiring a Different Cultural Awareness and Attitude
“Easy to miss the qualitative effect of quantitative change; just as a one degree change in temperature can turn water into steam, the pervasiveness of connectivity is now changing society”
Uncertainties become Concerns
These uncertainties to the business-owners become concerns for hidden flaws drastically affecting reliability and profitability.
- Assuming risk decreases over time (complacency)
- Over reliance on redundancy (common mode failure)
- Not considering off-normal events (unrealistic risk approach)
- Ad-hoc designs, not sound safety philosophy (drive-fix-drive reactive measures)
- Ignoring high-consequence, low probability events (Oklahoma City, World Trade Center)
Concerns become Reality
These outcomes of such flaws include: The Chicago flood of 1998, the DC-10 disaster over Chicago’s O’Hare airport, a rail car lead of chlorine gas, safety boards revisiting the same problems, and acts of terrorism.
Reality means contacting Strothman/Associates, Inc.
We understand these concerns and the need for foresight, the need for asking better questions, and learning what we don’t know. Probing systematically.
We comprehend that these concerns must now include accurately assessing risk, determining vulnerability to risk, then balancing cross-discipline business performance, security professionals and budgets
Reality means a Business Approach to managing uncertainty
We approach uncertainty in terms of challenges, rather than risk, resilience rather than catastrophe
- We help you be as resilient as you want to commit to!
- We help assess, manage, mitigate risk, not eliminate it.
- We help you step into the resiliency your facility was created to expect!
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Strothman Associates Inc.
847-491-6700
