Integración de la temática amenazas naturales y vulnerabilidad en el modelo Ecuador para la gestión integral de riesgos en la Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua Potable y Saneamiento (Quito - Ecuador)

摘要

The natural risk management inside a water operator is a developing and fundamental issue, basically due to that service importance. In fact, it is required an enterprise driven mechanism to set up the natural risk management under the normally accepted approaches for enterprises risk management. There are several proposals and management systems for risk managing, but no one adequate enough for natural risk management exists. The Modelo Ecuador for occupational risks management, has the possibility to get adapted for managing natural risk in an enterprise. The Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua Potable y Saneamiento (EPMAPS) has implemented modelo Ecuador with its correspondent informatics and human support. Also, the enterprise has a long tradition and actions to prevent and mitigate natural risks, which supposes an advantage towards an integrated management systems in natural risks. This academic report looked for presents how the integration of natural hazards variables can be inserted in Modelo Ecuador, with the aim of adapting that model to support an integrated management system for natural risks at EPMAPS. Thus an adaptation of modelo Ecuador is presented, using its tools, approach and technical bases, maintaining model´s fundamentals. . The occupational risks management model used by EPMAPS is based upon current legal frameworks that are taken into account in modelo Ecuador. On the other hand, natural risks management responds mostly to a technical driven origin linked to engineering, emphasising contingency plans building, with the aim of keep in functioning all services provided by EPMAPS. Nowadays, EPMAPS has developed seismic risks probabilistic analysis, using CAPRA platform. CAPRA is a computing tool that allows the probabilistic analysis of occurring probabilities for catastrophic events, and facilitates decision making to reduce functional vulnerability. As a conclusion, it is presented that modelo Ecuador can easily be adapted to manage natural risks. Also, its show up that occupational and natural risks management at EPMAPS complement each other in many aspects. Finally, the adaptation process reveals the improvement opportunities for modelo Ecuador.