ISO 22372:2025

International
Standard
ISO 22372
First edition
Security and resilience —
2025-11
Community resilience — Guidelines
for infrastructure resilience
Sécurité et résilience — Résilience collective — Lignes directrices
pour la résilience des infrastructures
Reference number
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Contents Page
Foreword .v
Introduction .vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Framework . 3
4.1 General .3
4.2 Objectives and responsibilities .3
4.3 Identifying and assessing capabilities of infrastructure .3
4.4 Setting priorities .5
4.5 Establishing a strategy and plan .6
5 Principles . 7
5.1 General .7
5.2 Principle 1: Clearly defined accountabilities and shared responsibilities .8
5.3 Principle 2: Proactively protected .9
5.4 Principle 3: Environmentally integrated .10
5.5 Principle 4: Socially engaged .11
5.6 Principle 5: Adaptively transforming . 12
5.7 Principle 6: Continually learning and improving . 13
6 Operational processes .13
6.1 General . 13
6.2 Plan: developing and sharing understanding .14
6.2.1 General .14
6.2.2 Collecting evidence .14
6.2.3 Working with and sharing information with others . 15
6.3 Plan: investing in infrastructure resilience .18
6.3.1 General .18
6.3.2 P1A6  Share hazard, risk and return information .18
6.3.3 P1A7  Invest to enhance resilience .18
6.3.4 P2A12  Devise long-term investments .19
6.4 Do: devising and designing ways to improve infrastructure resilience .19
6.4.1 General .19
6.4.2 P2A1  Increase essential safety requirements . 20
6.4.3 P2A2  Exceed basic requirements for critical components . 20
6.4.4 P2A3  Consider interdependencies of systems and systemic risks .21
6.4.5 P2A8  Design infrastructure to fail safely .21
6.4.6 P2A10  Design for multiple scales.21
6.4.7 P3A2  Appropriate use of nature-based solutions .21
6.4.8 P3A5  Use environmentally sustainable resources.21
6.4.9 P3A6  Sustainable use of natural resources . 22
6.5 Do: implementing ways to improve infrastructure resilience . 22
6.5.1 General . 22
6.5.2 P2A4  Secure multiple resilience pathways and controls . 23
6.5.3 P2A5  Take timely action . 23
6.5.4 P2A6  Embed emergency management. 23
6.5.5 P2A7  Consider infrastructure users . 23
6.5.6 P2A9  Implement strategies to overcome systemic weaknesses found by stress
testing .24
6.5.7 P3A1  Minimize environmental exposure and impact .24
6.5.8 P4A4  Focus resources on critical tasks during emergencies .24
6.5.9 P5A2  Create and enhance adaptive capacity . .24
6.5.10 P6A7  Establish redundancy within any monitoring and analysis system .24
6.6 Check: testing ways to improve resilience . 25

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6.6.1 General . 25
6.6.2 P6A4  Analyse, learn, and formulate improvements . 25
6.6.3 P6A5  Develop and test strategies to overcome component vulnerabilities . 25
6.7 Check: monitoring infrastructure resilience . 26
6.7.1 General . 26
6.7.2 P1A8  Manage infrastructure resilience performance . 26
6.7.3 P6A3  Monitor and report . 26
6.8 Act: improving practices, norms and management approaches . 26
6.8.1 General . 26
6.8.2 P4A1  Encourage active public participation .27
6.8.3 P4A3  Assess needs and expectations of the public .27
6.8.4 P4A5  Prepare people for disruptive incidents . 28
6.8.5 P5A1  Choose manageable solutions . 28
6.8.6 P5A3  Develop flexible management . 28
6.8.7 P5A4  Enable capacity to extend beyond initial scope . 28
6.8.8 P5A5  Allow for human discretion . 29
6.8.9 P6A6  Maintain and improve competencies . 29
6.9 Act: maintaining operational infrastructure and its natural environment . 29
6.9.1 General . 29
6.9.2 P2A11  Adopt condition-based maintenance . 30
6.9.3 P2A13  Inspect assets after disruptive incidents and near misses . 30
6.9.4 P3A4  Maintain the natural environment . 30
Annex A (informative) Example of a governance framework for infrastructure resilience .31
Bibliography .33

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