Zaviša Šimac, Professor of Geology and Geography
Nataša Holcinger, Professor of Geology and Geography
The development of Risk Assessment in Major Accidents belongs to the obligations of commanders, mayors and prefects of the units of local and regional self-governments in the Republic of Croatia pursuant to Article 17 of the Law on Civil Protection System (Official Gazette No. 82/15). Risk assessments are the starting document for the development of all plans and activities to reduce risk of disasters, prioritization of investments and sustainable development. National Protection and Rescue Directorate has brought Regulations on the Guidelines for the development of risk assessments of disasters and major accidents for the territory of the Republic of Croatia and the units of local and regional self-government (Official Gazette No. 65/16) and the Criteria for the development of the guidelines that are brought by the heads of regional self-government for the needs of the development of risk assessment of major accidents at the levels of local and regional self-government in order to make the risk assessments of major accidents uniform and comparable. In accordance with the Regulations and Criteria the workshop participants will be informed about the obligations, parts of assessments and the method of how to approach the development of Risk assessment in major accidents for the areas of local and regional self-government. They will also have the opportunity to make a frame of risk assessment, opportunity for teamwork assisted by the workshop manager and for the presentation of the results and for questions, discussion and exchange of experiences with other participants.
The workshop is intended precisely for heads, mayors and prefects as responsible persons in the area of their responsibility to manage the risks from their analysis through their reduction all the way to the response in case of major disaster, that is, for the persons, employees at local and regional self-government, who are responsible in the district, city or county for the coordination of the development and the very development of risk assessment of disaster and consulting of the representative body on risk management.
Workshop language: Croatian
