Overview
Your homework is to watch a video and prepare a one-page double-spaced page to submit to the instructor.
Johnstown Flood, is a case of mismanagement of risk which resulted in 2,200 fatalities when a dam to the east of Pittsburgh burst in 1889. Use your WVU login credentials to access this video.
Watch the video above and list two possible controls for preventing or mitigating/reducing the severity of flooding by applying these controls:
- Hazard control by elimination
- Hazard control by substitution
- Hazard control by engineering controls
- Hazard Control by administrative controls including training
- Hazard control using personal protective equipment