.0 Policy Introduction
The City of Hardeeville, South Carolina recognizes that as a public municipality it has a responsibility to protect its citizens, employees, assets and customers regarding a broad range of potential risks and safety concerns. The City understands that if potential risks and safety concerns are not managed it could adversely impact the organization along with people in which it is responsible for. Therefore, the City will implement an enterprise-wide safety and risk management framework to identify and address, where practical, areas of potential risk within the City.
Risk management is an administrative process that applies modern professional measures of loss identification, loss control, loss prevention and loss financing…show more content… Once risks have been identified, the Committee will analyze and prioritize each risk by assigning it a category of low, moderate, significant or high and utilize a matrix to measure its impact, likelihood and cost. The assessment of risks will be provided to the City Manager with recommendations from the Committee for corrective action.
5.0 Safety and Risk Management Oversight
The City of Hardeeville will establish and sustain the Committee to serve as the principle body responsible for the directive and implementation of the City of Hardeeville’s Safety and Risk Management framework and its goals.
Membership of the Committee shall consist of the following and represents individuals who are committed to the Safety and Risk Management framework and will attend all necessary meetings. Department Heads/Directors can solicit volunteers who are interested in serving on this committee prior to making any appointments. All appointments shall be confirmed by the City Manager.
Appointed Members:
1 Member of the Fire Department;
1 Member of the Police
