This document provides an overview of an organizational safety and security management course. The course covers key topics like defining safety and security, commonly used terminology, and distinguishing between concepts like hazards, risks, vulnerabilities, capacities, and emergencies versus disasters. It also explains differences between disaster prevention, mitigation, and preparedness approaches. The goal is to help students identify elements of definitions, explain relationships between concepts, and understand how risks can be reduced through various mitigation strategies.

1. Organizational Safety and Security Management
Boğaziçi University
Department of Tourism Administration
Course:
TRM 474 _Organizational Safety and Security
Management
Instructor:
Zeynep Türkmen Sanduvaç,MA.
Office: B 327
Office hours: Tuesday 13.00-14.00 or
by appointment
E-Mail: zturkmen@boun.edu.tr
zeynepturkmen@zeynepturkmen.com
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2. CONTENT
Week # 1 Introduction
What is Safety and Security Management?
Why this course: Who Needs it and Why
Week # 2 Introduction (Continued)
Terminology/Most Commonly Used Definitions;
emergency, disaster, hazard, risk, capacity
and vulnerability.
Prevention, Mitigation, Preparedness, Response
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3. IS IT SECURITY OR SAFETY ?
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4. IS IT SECURITY OR SAFETY ?
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5. SAFETY
Safety is the state from the event
of being "safe" the or from
condition of being exposure to
protected something that
causes h
ealth
or econo
mical
losses.
Safety includes protection
of people and possessions
against non-desirable
events.
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6. Warning signs, can improve
safety awareness. 6

7. SECURITY
Security is the
degree of protection against danger,
loss, and
criminals
causes h
ealth
or econo
mical
losses.
Security has to be compared and
contrasted with other related
concepts:
- safety
- continuity
- reliability 7

8. Reliability of security
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9. IS IT SECURITY OR SAFETY ?
Poisonous Fish
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10. IS IT SECURITY OR SAFETY ?
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11. IS IT SECURITY OR SAFETY ?
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12. IS IT SECURITY OR SAFETY ?
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13. IS IT SECURITY OR SAFETY ?
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14. IS IT SECURITY OR SAFETY ?
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16. CONTENT
Week # 1 Introduction
What is Safety and Security Management?
Why this course: Who Needs it and Why
Week # 2 Introduction (Continued)
Terminology / Most Commonly Used Definitions;
emergency/ disaster, hazard risk, capacity
and vulnerability.
Prevention, Mitigation, Preparedness, Response
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17. Learning objectives
• To identify key elements of most
commonly used definitions:
- disaster, hazard, risk, capacity and vulnerability.
• To explain the difference among:
- disaster preparedness, disaster prevention
disaster mitigation.
- risk management, cris management
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18. Blind mens describ an elephant
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19. THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT
John Godfrey Saxe's ( 1816-1887) version of the famous Indian legend. 19

20. TERMINOLOGY: Emergency - Disaster
• Affects people
• Usually triggered by a hazard
• Directly related to vulnerability
• Exceeds capacity of household, community
or group of people to cope
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22. RİSK YÖNETİMİ
Tahmin ve Erken
Hazırlık Uyarı
Risk Azaltma AFET
KORUMA
İYİLEŞME
EtkiDeğerlen-
Yeniden Yapılanma dirmesi
İyileşme Müdahale
KRİZ YÖNETİMİ
http://birimweb.icisleri.gov.tr
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23. Most commonly used definitions
• Hazard
• Risk
• Vulnerability
• Capacity
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24. What is a hazard?
• A hazard is a physical or human-made event
that can potentially trigger a disaster.
• Examples include earthquakes, mud-slides,
floods, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, drought,
economic collapse, and war.
OR
• Bombing, terrorist attack, food poisoning,
epidemics
• These physical events need not necessarily
result in disaster.
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25. HAZARD/TEHLIKE
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26. What is risk?
• The probability/likelihood of the non-desirable
event happening.
• Risk is related to the expected losses which can
be caused by a risky event and to the probability of
.
this event
• Risk analysis involves determining the
probability of the disaster happening.
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27. RISK
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28. The ingredients?
H x V - C = R
or
Risk = Hazard x Vulnerabilty
Capacity
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29. What is vulnerability?
• Human vulnerability is:
- the degree to which people are susceptible to loss,
damage, suffering and death, in the event of a
disaster.
• This is a function of:
- physical, economic, social, political, technical,
ideological, cultural, educational, ecological and
institutional conditions.
• Vulnerability relates to:
- an individual or community capacity to cope with
specific threats.
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30. What is capacity?
• Capacity is the resources of individuals,
households and communities to cope with
a threat or resist the impact of a hazard.
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31. Courtesy of Zeynep Turkmen Sanduvac
İllustratiuon: Arzu Ozler
Temel Afet Bilgisi El Kiabı.2009
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32. Courtesy of Zeynep Turkmen Sanduvac
İllustratiuon: Arzu Ozler
Temel Afet Bilgisi El Kiabı.2009
Hazard
Vulnerability
Capacity
Risk
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33. Hazard x Vulnerability - Capacity = Risk
Hazard Potential threat to humans
x and their welfare
Vulnerability Exposure and susceptibility
- to loss of life or dignity
Capacity Available and potential
= resources
Risk Probability of disaster
occurrence
*Emergency
*Disaster Realization of a risk
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34. Mitigation: How can risk be reduced?
Hazard reduction Vulnerability reduction
• Constructing flood • Seismic resistant
protection construction
• Improving drainage • Micro-seismic studies to
predict vulnerable areas
• Reinforcing hill-sides
• Relocating from river
• Eliminating the principal banks
site of an infection.
• Improving health and
nutrition
• Vaccination.
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35. What are the differences?
• Disaster preparedness
• Disaster mitigation
• Disaster prevention
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36. What are the differences?
• Disaster preparedness
• Disaster mitigation
• Disaster prevention
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37. Prevention, Mitigation and Preparedness
Emergency/ Emergency/ Emergency/
Disaster Disaster Disaster
Prevention mitigation preparedness
Activities Measures Ability to
designed taken in predict,
to provide advance of a respond to
permanent disaster aimed and cope with
protection at reducing its the effect of a
from disasters. impact on disaster.
society and
the
environment.
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38. BEFORE ENDING
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