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Canada's costliest catastrophe is flooding. Is your business prepared?

CCEM Strategies

By understanding the risks, you can better prepare your business. Files including contact information for your employees, key suppliers and customers, insurance and legal documents, and of course your emergency plan, should also be backed up digitally. So, what can you do to help mitigate the effects of flooding?

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

For example, business continuity management has a slightly different set of priorities which induces it to change the emphasis among triggering factors (Elliott et al. The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. For example, work by Marulana et al.

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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

With this new legislation comes substantial new requirements for community emergency managers – many relating to Indigenous engagement. s DRIPA, local governments are now required to consult and cooperate with neighbouring First Nations governments during all phases of emergency management. In alignment with UNDRIP and B.C.’s

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 47: Business continuity management only applies to the private sector. Reality: The public sector (municipal, regional and national governments and associated agencies) must be able to weather disaster and continue its activities just as any private company should. Myth 46: Disasters always happen to someone else.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

National standards should be developed to ensure that emergency plans are functional and compatible with one another, and that they ensure the interoperability of emergency services and functions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.