Going "All In" on All Hazards

This article discusses a new methodology, the “all‐hazards” approach, for securing critical utility infrastructure. This method of holistic risk mitigation covers the security of a utility where operational and physical improvements are aimed at providing multiple benefits to the utility. In such a philosophy, response, recovery, and resilience become the major goals, and the cause of the event becomes less important than the effect on the utility. The article discusses efforts at both the state and federal levels that will place increased security requirements and regulations on overall utility operations and management, including: Mutual Aid Disaster Intervention Response Teams (MADIRT); Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (WARN); Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection (RAM‐CAP?); U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Chemical Facility Anti‐Terrorism Standards (CFATS); and, AWWA's G430, Standard for Security Practices for Operation and Management.