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5. Findings and Conclusions
Pages 35-40

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... Risk analysis also can improve the allocations of resources to achieve more balanced reductions of risks at all stages of the building process, from early planning through continuing operations and maintenance. BUILDING SAFETY AND RISK The traditional body of standards and design criteria embodied in building codes and other documents endorsed by governments or professional organizations bear the primary burden of protecting the health and safety of people in and around buildings.
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... AN ANALYSIS PROCESS The committee highlighted nine specific areas, discussed in Chapter 4, in which risk analysis procedures may be applied at various levels of sophistication and detail to support more effective risk management: (1) design and operations of individual high risk facilities, (2)
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... However, simplified analysis methods and existing data can support e~licit risk analysis, based primarily on professional judgment, that can enhance overall risk management effectiveness. Government agencies and the private sector should implement the following recommendations: · Government agencies, model code organizations, building professionals, and others responsible for ensuring facility safety should work to increase their own and the public's awareness of how risk analysis principles and practices can improve safety at reasonable costs.
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From page 38...
... Risks can be reduced to very low levels, but cannot be completely eliminated, and those risks associated with particularly dreaded consequences often generate highly emotional debate in public forums. Building professionals and public policy officials should work to inform the public on matters of facility risk, to identify public concerns, and to incorporate these concerns into balanced, cost-effective strategies for risk management.
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... For facility owners, occupants, and neighbors these benefits of enhanced safety and protection through broader use of risk analysis will result in lives and dollars saved. 40Studies sponsored by the FCC have pointed the way toward development of integrated data bases for buildings that could include performance data to support risk analysis.
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