USFS Risk Calculator vs Fuels Data

To accomplish the mission of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, we expose employees, volunteers, and contractors to a wide variety of environments ranging from secure office settings to extremes of weather, terrain, fires, and floods. All of these workplace situations have hazards that present some degree of risk of harm to employees. Fortunately, most of the risk our employees face is manageable through deliberate, collaborative, and thoughtful risk management. This App exists to help employees expose risks, evaluate how to mitigate them to the lowest practicable level, and then decide if achieving the objectives is worth accepting the residual risks. The Operational Risk Management (ORM) process can be used to assist agency leaders, supervisors, and employees with identifying and mitigating risk associated with the work we perform. This App provides a tool for employees to conduct a thorough assessment of real-time risks to compliment a risk informed decision.

Fuels Data is designed for wildland management practitioners tasked with collecting surface fuels measurements in the field It automatically performs calculations and table lookups. Photos and data are linked together, which eliminates the need to diligently sequence reference photos to align with data. These features reduce the risk of mistakes in transcribing and reviewing collected data in the field. The collected data may also be uploaded to the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence to build and train fuel load estimation models.