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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

The term ‘civil protection system’ describes coordinated national, regional and local arrangements designed to plan for, manage and respond to major emergencies, and to initiate recovery from them. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

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

CCEM Strategies

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. Remember, paper rapidly deteriorates when wet and mold will be quick to emerge in a flooded building.

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Yes, tsunamis can happen in coastal BC. How is your business preparing?

CCEM Strategies

Here’s what you need to know when preparing your emergency plan. These are just a few of the planning elements to include in your emergency plan for responding to a tsunami warning. Contact us for customized emergency management and business continuity planning Preparing your business for disaster is critical.

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How To Strengthen Your Organization's Infrastructure for an Emergency

CCEM Strategies

While it may seem obvious that government is responsible for emergency management and planning, this perception doesn’t show the full picture. Emergency management responsibilities are shared by local and provincial governments, First Nations, critical infrastructure, businesses and individual citizens.

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

CCEM Strategies

In the face of escalating climate-related emergencies, the Province of B.C.’s s recent allocation of $18 million for Indigenous engagement is a critical opportunity for communities to increase preparedness through consultation and collaboration and meet new emergency management legislative requirements.

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Is Your Community Prepared for the Wildfire Season?

CCEM Strategies

The Role of Communities in Wildfire Season Wildfire management is complex, especially when the seasonal severity is high. Review the plans and think about how wildfire might impact your community. Requesting and/or providing resources and mutual aid As you review, look for places to enhance the plans and procedures.

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Working in a Hybrid World – The Future of Incident & Crisis Management Rooms

Plan B Consulting

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) has been running this past week to raise awareness about the new hybrid work environment and how organisations need to rethink the way they embed, validate, and raise awareness amongst their staff of Business Continuity Plans. Last week I ran a SIMEX for a bank crisis management team.