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.

Topic:

Topic Natural hazards

Personnel

Gian Reto Bezzola
Position: head of section, deputy head of division
Responsibilities: risk management, event analysis
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Roberto Loat
Position: deputy head of section
Responsibilities: hazards, risk management, planning measures
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Manuel Häberli
Responsibilities: incident management, education local natural danger advisers
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Andreas Inderwildi
Responsibilities: lake regulation
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Bertrand Jeanguenat
Responsibilities: cross sections surveys
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Markus Müller
Responsibilities: incident management, emergency plans
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Thomas Ruch
Responsibilities: geographic information systems GIS
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Wolfgang Ruf
Responsibilities: natural hazards data model, GIS
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Wanda Wicki
Responsibilities: hazards, risk management
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E-mail: [e-mail]

Last modification 12.07.2016