This includes enforcing and updating building codes, eliminating non-structural hazards, and ensuring continuity of emergency health care.Ĭommunity Continuity: All communities within the State of Washington should have the capacity to maintain their social networks and livelihoods after an earthquake disaster. Life Safety and Human Health: Residents of the State of Washington should not suffer life-threatening injuries from earthquake-induced damage or develop serious illness from lack of emergency medical care after an earthquake. This includes the use of proper growth management, accident response capacity, and industrial safety measures. This includes sufficient employment opportunities, market access, distribution capacity, and supplier access.Įnvironmental Protection: The natural resources and ecosystems of Washington State should be managed in such a way as to minimize earthquake-induced damage. This includes proper design and construction of both structural and non-structural elements.Įconomic Security: Residents and businesses within the State of Washington should have access to income opportunities to meet basic needs before and soon after an earthquake. Property Protection: Public and private property within the State of Washington should be built, retrofitted, or rebuilt to minimize earthquake-induced damage. In accordance with this definition, a number of values have been established for Washington State to achieve resilience. In the event that services and livelihoods are disrupted, recovery occurs rapidly, with minimal social disruption, and results in a new and better condition. The RWS subcommittee has defined a resilient state as one that maintains services and livelihoods after an earthquake. Unlike the SPUR document, the RWS effort will be focused on statewide impacts. The final SPUR documents for the Resilient City project in San Francisco can be found at. This effort was inspired by a similar effort undertaken for the City of San Francisco by the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). Prepare recommendations for statewide action to achieve desired targets and present those recommendations in a clear and concise document.Develop target time frames for the restoration of services.Develop targets for the desired level of performance.Evaluate the current condition of infrastructure in the state relative to earthquake resilience.Beginning with a one-day workshop on September 17, the RWS subcommittee worked with key experts and stakeholders to: The RWS subcommittee has been formulating a plan of action to complete this effort since the start of 2010. To complete this effort, the SSC formed a subcommittee called the Resilient Washington State (RWS) subcommittee. The document will be used to facilitate long-term implementation of seismic risk reduction policies across the state with the goal of making the state resilient in a 50-year time frame.

Such a framework includes more effective seismic mitigation policies and recommendations for legislation and policy changes to improve and enhance statewide seismic safety. The Washington State Seismic Safety Committee (SSC) initiated a project to study and prepare a policy paper with the purpose of providing a framework for improving Washington’s resilience when earthquakes occur. Southern Whidbey Island fault zone (PDF).Determining Washington's Resilience-Sectors & Components(PDF).Resilient Washington State (RWS) Initiative - Bartoletti (PDF).Earthquake Threats to Resilient Hazards in Washington - Timothy Walsh (PDF).The Resilient Washington State Initiative (PDF).Resilient Washington State Final Report (PDF).Resilient Washington State Workshop Report II (PDF).Resilient Washington State Workshop Report I (PDF).

Resilient Washington State (RWS) Initiative Project

Washington State Gap Analysis Report (PDF).

WSSPC Board of Directors Names 2013 Awards in Excellence Winners (PDF).

This will be established through a collaborative effort and consensus of committee members representing stakeholder organizations across the state. Prepare and submit to the Emergency Management Council (EMC) statewide strategies, policies, and recommendations that address the seismic threat through mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery activities.

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