Diseño del plan integral de gestión de riesgos institucional para la Escuela de Ingeniería de Gestión de Transporte de la Facultad de Administración de Empresas de la Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo.

Abstract

An Integral Institutional Risk Management Plan is designed for the Transportation Management Engineering School of the ESPOCH with the objective of identifying and reducing vulnerabilities in the face of threats such as: earthquakes; fires, accidents, and injuries; volcanic activity; terrorism and social violence; to which all the people who visit and work in the facilities are exposed. The applied methodology is based on the model proposed by the Secretariat of Risk Management, which proposes five phases of study: the first phase refers to the characterization of the school and analysis of institutional risks, the second one provides the guidelines to reduce the risks previously evaluated, the third phase exposes emergency management, the fourth one covers issues for the recovery of the institution after adverse events; and finally, the fifth one programs activities to reduce the risks found in the first phase; in addition, it validates and proposes processes for monitoring and evaluating the plan. As a result of this work, the matrix of risk identification and projection showed a minimum value of 2.5, which means according to its scale, that the level of risk is very high compared to the threats found in the institution. For this reason, security activities and equipment that are proposed in the plan were implement, as a measure of risk prevention or mitigation. The work concludes by stating that the implementation of the PIGR (Spanish Acronym for: Integral Risk Management Plan) decreased the levels of risks and improved the response capacity of the people who work and visit the institution. It is recommended to update this Integral Risk Management Plan every year, since the threats and vulnerabilities change as time passes.