1. Resiliency Framework & the Route to Resilience Tool
Ohio WARN Workshop
December 5, 2017

2. Presentation Overview
Resiliency Framework
Route to Resilience Tool
ASSESS
RECOVER
PLAN
RESPOND
TRAIN

3. 1. Resiliency Framework

4. What is the Resiliency Framework?
Water Security Initiative Program Review
What is the Resiliency Framework?
The Resiliency Framework is designed to:
Define what it is to be a “Resilient Utility”
Create a more compelling structure that motivates utilities to reduce risk to all hazard incidents
Provide a greater sense of cohesion to EPA’s Water Security Division (WSD) related products and services

5. Resiliency Framework ASSESS RECOVER PLAN RESPOND TRAIN
Emergency Response
Risk Communication
Response Partner Network
Lab Support
Mutual Aid & Assistance
RECOVER
PLAN
There are 5 key components of the Resiliency Framework:
Assess: Conducting an all-hazards risk assessment and developing a risk management plan are key steps for water sector utilities to reduce risk and increase resilience.
Plan: Develop plans for your utility that will help to mitigate the risks and vulnerabilities that you identified during the risk assessment. This includes developing emergency response and risk communication plans, establishing response partners, and joining laboratory and mutual aid and assistance networks.
Train: Training and exercises provide an opportunity for utilities to practice response actions and learn where improvements are needed to increase overall preparedness. This helps to better understand roles and responsibilities before emergencies occur, and ensures that personnel are familiar with the response procedures contained in ERPs.
Respond: Responding to an actual emergency that is impacting a utility’s operations and community. This is where previous preparedness planning and training activities will really pay off.
Recover: Recovery of the water sector entails the efficient restoration of the systems and services that support a viable, sustainable community. Hazard mitigation for the water sector refers to actions taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk to human life and property from natural hazards. The water sector can participate in recovery and mitigation planning both before and after an emergency occurs.
RESPOND
TRAIN

6. 2. Route to Resilience Tool (RtoR)
Water Security Initiative Program Review
2. Route to Resilience Tool (RtoR)
What I would like to do now is provide you with a demonstration of the Route to Resilience tool, which features the framework.

7. Water Security Initiative Program Review
What is the RtoR Tool?
RtoR tool is designed for a drinking water/wastewater utilities that are just starting to explore how to increase their resiliency to natural and man-made disasters.
It is ideal for those utilities wanting to learn more about resilience and guides them to the most relevant tools and resources developed by EPA’s WSD.
By watching a series of brief videos at each of the 5 stops on the RtoR, and then selecting capability goals that most closely match their own resiliency goals, utilities can start to build their individualized Roadmap to Resilience.
This customized roadmap report, generated by the RtoR, contains direct links to products and tools that will help utilities become more resilient.
So what is the RtoR tool?
There are 3 overarching features of the tool:
LEARN by watching a brief video that explains the stops own unique aspect of resilience.
CHOOSE a resiliency goal that best matches your utility’s capabilities and needs.
CREATE a customized report that lists appropriate tools and resources designed to help you achieve those goals.

8. RtoR will be a downloadable executable that users can access from the WSD webpage but will then have to install onto their local machine.
It will be a fully dynamic tool that guides the user to resiliency products.

9. OVERVIEW VIDEO
Show Overview Video.

10. Water Security Initiative Program Review
Assess
Recover
Plan
RtoR Homepage
Respond
Train

11. First stop is to Assess.
Must complete Assess first before proceeding to the next stop.

12. ASSESS VIDEO Additional Resources Initial Assess Page:
First time the user arrives on the Assess page the get the Assess Primer video , it is auto launch. The video has no user controls so the user must watch the entire video.
All of the framework components will have an video primer.
After the video ends the user is navigated to the Main Assess page (next slide).

13. Assess homepage.
After user watches the video, they will need to make selection as per the capability level (e.g., basic, intermediate, advanced).
There are only two capabilities level for Assess as shown on the screen.
Once they make a selection, the “Roadmap” report will provide the user with suggested products (next slide).
The report icon will show that it has been updated in the upper left hand corner with a number.
Click home icon to go back to home page (upper right hand corner)

17. Screen shot of the Roadmap report showing selections made under Assess.
3-5 product limit for each capability level.

18. Next step is to Plan.
Click Plan and watch video.

19. Plan stop including the 5 sub-elements: Emergency Response, Risk Communication, Response Partners, Laboratory Support, and Mutual Aid and Assistance.

20. Additional Resources

21. All products and services report.

22. Where can I get the RtoR Tool?
Water Security Initiative Program Review
Where can I get the RtoR Tool?
Got to the EPA Water Resilience homepage and click here:

23. Jeff Fencil, US EPA, OGWDW
Questions?
Jeff Fencil, US EPA, OGWDW