Hazard prevention

Hazard prevention

Hazard prevention is the process of of risks.

Second stage in emergency management when one cannot eliminate risks, is the mitigation, to reduce the effects. Prevention itself means to stop or cancel something whilst it's going on before it has a chance to go any further.

See also

* Hurricane Katrina
* Mitigation


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