Safety is one of the basic needs of every citizen, company, city, region, and state. Long-term solutions to safety issues have brought 6 pillars to this area (ie physical security, fire safety, safety and health at work, environmental safety and security, operational safety and security, information security). The mentioned safety/security pillars comprehensively cover the area of safety within the company, region, etc. In today's society, it is necessary to focus on the effective evaluation of individual pillars of safety/security. By evaluating them, it is possible to identify places with deficiencies that may be sources of risk in the future. Sources of risk could be identified through a tool that could comprehensively assess all pillars. The result of the evaluation would be the level of safety of the evaluated pillar. Depending on the level of the safety pillar, adequate measures could be taken to address the shortcomings.
The critical infrastructure (hereinafter referred to as CI) is a complex unit made up of a plurality of elements, which are mutually connected. CI covers processes, systems, equipment, technology, to ensure the functioning of the state in and civil society. In society, you need to make every CI element working. The failure of the CI element can lead to disruption of the functioning of the relevant sector, for example, transport, energy, industry, which can lead to disruption of basic service delivery. A serious outage would have a negative impact on society. The most important sub-sector of CI is the electricity sub-sector. The current life of citizens and the functioning of the company is dependent on the supply of electric energy. Since the year 2013, the electric energy is considered a unique critical sector in the framework document PPD-21. Increasing the security of the elements incorporated into this subsector can be achieved by increasing the level of resilience. Increasing the level of resilience of elements can be achieved through self-assessment by operators. Self-assessment can analyze the current situation and give answers to the questions addressed.
The quality of the environment as well as public health is convincingly coupled with the functioning of a power subsector. The power subsector plays a pivotal role in the sense that it emerges as the key cross-sectional element for the society’s functioning (production, services, healthcare, education and others). A modern society consists of infrastructure systems that are primarily dependent on continuous electricity supplies. Each and every element of the electric power infrastructure is unique, and thus, its malfunction can disrupt the functioning of an important part of the electric power infrastructure. In conjunction with ensuring the functioning of electric power infrastructure, our attention must be drawn to the resilience issue. As far as the resilience of electric power infrastructure is concerned, it can resist weather-related events ensuring there are no disruptions in continuous electricity supplies. First, in the introductory part, the article presents the legal framework in the Slovak Republic. Second, it describes the current state of the electric power infrastructure of Slovakia. Third, it handles the state of the level of security risk assessment. Later on, in the literature review, besides turning to the issue of resilience assessment, the authors focused on the area of resilience of power engineering. Furthermore, the article scrutinizes resilience assessment in Slovakia, and it briefly examines approaches towards natural threats. In addition, the article demonstrates several approaches towards flood resilience. Having used different methods, the primary concern is to devise a framework for resilience assessment. Therefore, the included case study examines aspects of the proposed framework for resilience assessment. In conclusion, our aim was, in most respects, to outline an innovative methodological framework for increasing the resilience of electricity infrastructure.
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