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Z1600 Emergency & Continuity Management Standard

Z1600 Emergency & Continuity Management Standard

The second edition of the CSA Z1600 emergency and continuity management program standard sets out requirements for a continual improvement process to develop, implement, maintain, and evaluate an emergency and…

Disaster Risk Reduction Panel

Disaster Risk Reduction Panel

The Calgary Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) brought together a great panel at Mount Royal University (MRU) this past week. The symposium focused on fostering community resilience in a dynamic risk…

Informal Leadership

Informal Leadership

Shortly after the 2005 floods in Calgary I was given the opportunity to represent Canada during the development of the ISO Standard on the Crisis Management of Water Utilities –…

Flooding in British Columbia and What to Expect in the Wake of the Atmospheric River

Flooding in British Columbia and What to Expect in the…

Thinking about my past experiences with flooding in Alberta, and how we used the attached graphic to help create our Recovery plans. Not to mention the move from the “Honeymoon”…

Live Streaming Your EOC During Crisis

Live Streaming Your EOC During Crisis

The situation in Oroville and the California State EOC may change the way we do business as Emergency Managers in the future. During my tenure as an EOC Manager I…

Cascading Effects of a Pandemic

Cascading Effects of a Pandemic

There was a lot learned from SARS. The after action reports pointed fingers at the federal, provincial and local health practitioners about how unprepared they were. The Health Sector took…

3D Printed Housing

3D Printed Housing

On November 14, 2021, a record setting amount of rain fell over Merritt BC causing the loss of critical infrastructure and prompting the evacuation of the entire city on the…

Community Recovery – Merritt 2022 “Thank Your Neighbour Day

Community Recovery – Merritt 2022 “Thank Your Neighbour Day

November 2021, Southern British Columbia receives a weather alert of 3 atmospheric rivers hitting the coastal province over 2 days. There is little warning of the potential severity of the…

Water Sector Preparedness

Water Sector Preparedness

After 9-11, security mitigation and preparedness was high on the list of most critical infrastructure owners, and the water sector was no exception. Here in Canada, the move had already…