DLS-203 D2 Life Loss and Uncertainty
Channel: USACE Risk Management Center
Date: 2022-10-27

Explore how the USACE RMC uses LifeSim, a software tool used to estimate consequences from flooding. LifeSim provides the tools to determine the potential for life loss and economic damages to support risk assessments. In addition, the software provides the tools to perform alternative analysis to promote potentially cost-saving measures on projects to reduce risk.

Learning Objectives
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
• Describe LifeSim, its purpose and use.
• Describe scenarios where LifeSim was utilized, and the consequences and conclusions of those scenarios.
• Use the LifeSim model checklist to help document results, responses and comments.
• Identify the key variables and exports produced by LifeSim, including evacuation, population impact, stability fates, fatality rates, and damage estimates.
• Use LifeSim to estimate life loss in a particular simulation.
• Describe “warning” in all its forms, as well as its application in LifeSim.
• Use and demonstrate the correct vocabulary of hydraulics.
• Identify the hydraulic data needed to make better estimates
• Isolate and identify key considerations for LifeSim calculations.
• Describe the key what, how and why of the consequences of flooding.
• Review LifeSim methodology and apply to case studies.

Module Objectives 
• Use and demonstrate the correct vocabulary of hydraulics 
• Identify the hydraulic data needed to make better estimates 
• Isolate and identify key considerations for LifeSim calculations 

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