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27 Assess Current Practice (Step 1) The first step in the self-assessment tool is understanding the current state-of-practice in your agency as it relates to resilience.
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28 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide Factor 1.2: As part of your self-assessment process, have you examined best practices from other agencies and organizations? Identifying best practices from peer organizations is one of the most common strategies for identifying possible actions to improve many aspects of your agency's performance.
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Assess Current Practice (Step 1) 29 agencies have occurred in recent years.
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30 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide factor relates to all types of network or system disruptions. The distinction among the different levels of maturity reflects the degree to which such after-action reports are formalized within agency procedures.
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Assess Current Practice (Step 1) 31 individual assets back to pre-event operational levels.
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32 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide • Level 3: We have systematically examined each of these sources of disruption with respect to their impacts on agency activities. Natural hazards have been evaluated with respect to future climate changes in addition to considering today's conditions.
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Assess Current Practice (Step 1) 33 • Level 2: We have conducted a review of staff roles and responsibilities agency-wide for twothirds of the staff directly involved in resilience-oriented activities.
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Maturity Factor Level 1 (1 point) Level 2 (2 points)
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1.6 Are after-action reports created after major incidents and disruptions? We do not have standard operating procedures for afteraction reports, although some sections or functional areas do so on an ad hoc basis.
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Score Range Description of Agency Maturity in Assessing Current Practice 0 to 16 Your agency is emerging into this area and has taken initial steps to grow awareness and understanding of the types of strategies it can implement to assess current practice. 17 to 31 Your agency has implemented several strategies to assess current practice, not so much as part of an agency-wide strategy but rather at the initiativeof agency staff.
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Assess Current Practice (Step 1) 37 • Update staff professional development and training opportunities to include the latest thinking and concepts in system resilience.
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38 Mainstreaming System Resilience Concepts into Transportation Agencies: A Guide Chapter 3 Reference FHWA.
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