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Practitioners Guide to the Risk Management Framework for DFO Habitat Management Staff

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1.0 Preface 2.0 Introduction 3.0 Risk Management Framework 4.0 Appendices List of Figures List of Tables
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The intent of this Practitioners Guide is to provide guidance to Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Habitat Management Program (HMP) staff. This Guide is part of a series of Practitioners Guides that support the Habitat Management Program in making transparent and consistent decisions during the regulatory review of works or undertakings that affect fish and fish habitat across Canada. These Guides are intended for internal use by HMP staff. If you have any concerns, omissions, corrections or comments on this Guide or any Practitioner Guide, please refer them to your regional representative of the national Habitat Protection and Sustainable Development (HPSD) Working Group. We invite your feedback: please refer any comments on this and other guides to your regional representative on the national Habitat Protection and Sustainable Development Sub- Committee.

Table of Contents

• 1.0 Preface



• 2.0 Introduction
  • 2.1 Background
  • 2.2 Purpose
  • 2.3 Legal and Policy Context


• 3.0 Risk Management Framework
  • 3.1 Aquatic Effects Assessment
  • 3.1.1 Identify Relevant Activities (POES)
  • 3.1.2 Assess Mitigation Measures
  • 3.2 Risk Assessment
  • 3.2.1 Determine Scale of Negative Effect
  • 3.2.2 Determine Sensitivity of Fish and Fish Habitat
  • 3.2.3 Categorize Risk (Using Risk Assessment Matrix)
  • 3.3 Risk Management
  • 3.3.1 Low Risk
  • 3.3.2 Medium Risk
  • 3.3.3 High Risk
  • 3.3.4 Significant Negative Effects


• 4.0 Appendices
  • Appendix A: Definitions


• List of Figures
  • Figure 1: Applying the Risk Management Framework to Decision-making under the Habitat Protection Provisions of the Fisheries Act
  • Figure 2: Pathway of Effects Diagram for Vegetation Clearing
  • Figure 3: Risk Assessment Matrix Used to Illustrate Various Categories of Risk
  • Figure 4: Risk Assessment Matrix Used to Illustrate Uncertainty
  • Figure 5: Risk Assessment Matrix showing Common Management Tools and the Concepts of Relocation and Redesign


• List of Tables
  • Table 1: Activities for which Pathway of Effects (PoE) Diagrams have been developed
  • Table 2: Potential Pathways of Effects (PoEs) for Three Stream Crossing Proposal
  • Table 3: Example of a Proponent's Mitigation Plan for Vegetation Clearing Adjacent to a Water Body
  • Table 4: Attributes used to describe the scale of negative effects
  • Table 5: Sensitivity of Fish and Fish Habitat
  • Table 6: Using Attributes to Describe Sensitivity of Fish and Fish Habitat

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