Safety regions in the Netherlands play a crucial role in ensuring the safety of citizens in crisis and disaster situations. The risk management team works proactively to identify, prevent and mitigate risks. In this article, we discuss how professionals within risk management carry out their work, what challenges they encounter and how Digital Twins can help make better-informed decisions.
Job duties and responsibilities
The responsibilities of a risk management team are broad and include:
- Conducting risk assessments: Identifying potential hazards, such as floods or industrial accidents, and assessing their impact on the environment.
- Advising on spatial plans and permits: Assessing construction projects for safety, such as fire safety, and advising municipalities on permitting.
- Advice at events: Working with other agencies, such as the fire department, the team helps ensure safety at events by providing advice on such things as emergency exits and crowd control.
- Monitoring compliance with safety measures: For example, checking that businesses comply with regulations around fire safety.
- Information and education: Raising awareness among citizens and businesses about potential risks and emergency preparedness.
Information as a challenge
One of the biggest challenges facing risk management is obtaining current, accurate and actionable information. Often, information is scattered across different systems or map layers, making it difficult to get a complete and real-time picture of a situation. Consider static data such as the location of agricultural stables, fire hydrants or objects with solar panels. It often takes time and effort to gather this information and deploy it effectively.
In addition, real-time information, such as traffic flows or how busy a city is, is not yet always well integrated into the systems used by safety regions. This makes it more difficult to accurately assess risks and quickly respond to changes in the environment.
The added value of a Digital Twin
A Digital Twin is a virtual representation of the physical world and offers a dynamic, real-time view of infrastructure, nature and buildings, for example. For risk management, this can add tremendous value by helping to visualize, simulate and predict possible scenarios.
With a Digital Twin, security regions can:
- Gain real-time insights: For example, about traffic volumes, weather conditions or the impact of a flood.
- Simulate scenarios: Consider predicting the spread of hazardous materials or simulating evacuations during a disaster.
- Vulnerability mapping: Visualizing all risk factors, such as waterways, hazardous materials companies, and firewater facilities, from a single integrated platform.
- Making quick and accurate decisions: By having a current and complete overview of the situation, risk management professionals can make more informed choices.
Platform for real-time insights
To effectively utilize the benefits offered by a Digital Twin, it is important that the information be easily accessible to everyone in the organization. Using an integrated platform that brings together multiple data sources into one interactive 3D environment provides the solution. This allows users without specialized knowledge to quickly access real-time data and simulations, and react immediately to changes in the environment.
The platform also easily links to existing systems such as control rooms or permit systems, so that all information is available in one place. This provides a fast, convenient way to analyze risks and communicate with colleagues.
Case study: Zeeland Safety Region
The Zeeland Safety Region is deploying a Digital Twin to better manage risks such as flooding and industrial accidents. By integrating real-time data and simulating scenarios, they can act faster and proactively respond to potential hazards. This makes for more efficient and informed decision-making, which ultimately benefits the safety of residents.
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