One Incident - Many Affected

What's the difference? 

A Hazard or Vulnerability is any source of potential damage, harm or adverse health effects on something or someone. The Risk is the consequence of result of exposure to a hazard or vulnerability. 

A risk is generally associated to a hazardous or vulnerable situation, condition or thing that may be dangerous to the safety or well being of any person (s), or place (s). Vulnerabilities or hazards have the potential to cause harm to infrastructures including but not limited to cyber, transportation, industrial and manufacturing, communications, as well as financial networks. Risks also have the potential to cause injury, illness, damage to property, loss of life, or grievous bodily harm. 

Risks exist by association to vulnerabilities with respect to our on-going exposure to our physical environment, the cyber environment, information security, operational security, as well as our ever-present drive to maintain our competitive edge during our social economic growth. As such, hazards and vulnerabilities should be identified, studied and eliminated if possible. If this is not possible each one must be controlled to a point where they present the least amount of risk.

An Emergency is defined under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act  as “a situation or an impending situation that constitutes a danger of major proportions that could result in serious harm to persons or substantial damage to property and that is caused by the forces of nature, a disease or other health risk, an accident or an act whether intentional or otherwise.” Visit Emergency Management Ontario for more details.

According to the Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety an Incident is defined "as an occurrence, condition, or situation arising in the course of work that resulted in or could have resulted in injuries, illnesses, damage to health, or fatalities."

"The term "accident" is also commonly used, and can be defined as an unplanned event that interrupts the completion of an activity, and that may (or may not) include injury or property damage. Some make a distinction between accident and incident. They use the term incident to refer to an unexpected event that did not cause injury or damage that time but had the potential. "Near miss" or "dangerous occurrence" are also terms for an event that could have caused harm but did not."

The fundamental priority for all businesses, loss prevention program, risk management system, health and safety, and emergency management department is a provision made for incident, emergency and disaster response planning. No workplace, infrastructure, plant, office, community, should be without such a plan.  

When an incident, emergency or disaster unfolds, there is no time to plan.

Whether your business requires a field level risk assessment, a security and vulnerability analysis, an emergency preparedness plan, an independent health and safety consultation, or in need of independent investigative services, we can help. Our Primary goal is to help you.

We can help you identify the overall risks, determine how susceptible your assets are to loss (vulnerability), and determine how important those assets are. Argus Research Group utilizes a variety of research applications and investigative methods that can identify vulnerabilities, help implement mitigation controls, and consult on corrective strategies that keep you and the public safe, and your business moving forward. 

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