Transcript Alberta Emergency Management Agency

2007 Connecting the Dots to Safer Communities
Emergency Preparedness Services
November 26, 2007
Alberta Emergency Management Agency
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Organization
Colin Blair
Preparedness
Services
Greg Carter
Consequence
Management
Mahendra
Wijayasinghe
Research and
Analysis/
Public Education
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Karen McAree
Training Design
and Accreditation
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Consequence Management
• Consequence Management and CrossGovernment Coordination
• Government Hazard Specific Planning
• Government Emergency Operations Centre
• Government Business Continuity Planning
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Consequence Management
• Mitigation Programs
• Structural
• Non-structural
• Risk Management
• Consolidated Provincial
• Start with qualitative approach
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Regulation and Plan
• A system approach to emergency
management
• Government Emergency Management
Regulation
• Alberta Emergency Plan
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Flood Mitigation Strategy
To identify and take steps to implement
Flood Mitigation projects that reduce:
• reactive costs (Disaster Recovery Program)
• danger to the public
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Public Education and Awareness
• General:
• Fire Safety Campaigns - e.g., Fire Prevention
Week
• Emergency Preparedness Week
• Publications (Pamphlets, booklets, cards)
• Audio-visual library
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Public Education and Awareness
• Targeted:
• Risk Watch
• Getting to Know Fire
• Juvenile Fire Setter Intervention;
seniors/disabled
• Alberta Fire News – Agency newsletter
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Fire Statistics Information System
• Fire incident reporting
• Electronic (Fire Electronic Reporting System)
• Hard-copy
• Data entry/processing
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Fire Statistics Information System
• Data analysis
• Fire statistics reports
• Annual report
• Research reports
• Custom analysis
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Institute
• Strengthen public safety through:
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Research
Developing risk management applications
Post-incident analyses
Knowledge development
Knowledge transfer
• Three phase plan
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Training
• A “pillar” of the Agency
• Agency Training Plan for internal and
external training of all programs
• Complete internal and external training
needs assessment
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Training
• options for accreditation/certification
• current grant program administration
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Grants
• Increase training delivery
• Improve risk management process
• Improve emergency response capability
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Technical Support
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Disaster Recovery
Public Alerting
Response capability
Field Staff link to Provincial Director of
Emergency Management
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Alberta – A Province Prepared!
Colin Blair
Provincial Director of Emergency
Management
(780) 427-8644
[email protected]
www.aema.gov.ab.ca
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2007 Connecting the Dots to Safer Communities
Emergency Preparedness Services
November 26, 2007
Alberta Emergency Management Agency
November 17, 2007