Organizational resilience is the ability to withstand and recover from disruptive events while maintaining core functions and long-term viability. The Division of Safety and Risk Services promotes university resilience through its work with campus partners, by leveraging the university's key asset, its people, giving them knowledge, skills, and technical assistance to address ever-changing vulnerabilities.
Campus resilience through preparedness
While we cannot predict exactly when a crisis or emergency will occur, we can prepare by using an interdisciplinary approach to risk management, safety, emergency management, and business continuity. Planning, training, and mitigation in departments and classrooms are vital to preparedness. University level efforts can be seen through our Enterprise Risk Management Program.
We all have a role to play and this campus-wide approach to preparedness begins at the personal level.
Partnerships
The University of Oregon is a hub of scholars and research programs that provide data-driven, scalable resources for improving environmental resilience. We work with programs such as Oregon Hazards Lab, Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT), Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments, and Disaster Resilient Universities Network.
We believe our integrated organizational approach to resilience will become a model of how to turn one of a campus' greatest concerns — the safety and well-being of its people — into its strongest asset as we build a resilient university.
