Risk Management Section

The section

• is the specialised agency for issues concerning integrated risk management
• develops strategies for comprehensive risk management based on comparable security standards throughout Switzerland;
• advises and supports officials and expert committees in the area of risk management;
• is responsible for hazard data and documentation (hazard maps, hazard register, data modelling, surveying the watercourses of national importance);
• develops guidelines for the assessment of hazards during activities with a spatial impact and for quality assurance in the area of hazard assessment;
• carries out event analyses in collaboration with specialised agencies;
• develops frameworks for emergency plans and crisis management as part of integrated risk management and supports basic and advanced training in this field;
• ensures interdepartmental cooperation in the event of an emergency and is responsible for the FOEN's internal crisis organisation;
• superintends the control of flow rates and lake levels.

Topic:

Topic Natural hazards

Personnel

Gian Reto Bezzola
Position: head of section, deputy head of division
Responsibilities: risk management, event analysis
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Roberto Loat
Position: deputy head of section
Responsibilities: hazards, risk management, planning measures
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Davide Albertini
Responsibilities: watercourses surveying / GIS
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E-mail: [e-mail]

Manuel Häberli
Responsibilities: incident management, education local natural danger advisers
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E-mail: [e-mail]

Andreas Inderwildi
Responsibilities: lake regulation
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Bertrand Jeanguenat
Responsibilities: watercourses surveying / GIS
Tel.: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

Markus Müller
Responsibilities: incident management, emergency plans
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E-mail: [e-mail]

Wolfgang Ruf
Responsibilities: natural hazards data model, GIS
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E-mail: [e-mail]

Maja Stucki
Responsibilities: hazards, risk management
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Wanda Wicki
Responsibilities: hazards, risk management
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E-mail: [e-mail]

Last modification 05.06.2019