Transcript Alberta Emergency Management Agency

Alberta Emergency
Management Agency
‘Alberta - A Province Prepared’
The Agency Critical Event
Response Plan
Signed into action by Managing
Director September 13th 2007
Critical Event Response Plan
Aim
•
To ensure a timely and effective Agency
response to all critical events to support
community and government responders
• To raise awareness of the services the
Agency can offer communities in support
of public safety
General Policy
• Agency policy to over-respond and then
scale back as necessary
• The plan is supported by a Duty Manager
and on-call field staff - their duties take
precedence over all other tasks
• The province is divided into 3 regions,
each with 1 on-call staff ready to deploy
Scope
Critical Event Response Plan
• Defined criteria for Critical Event and its
assessment
• The right response – quick, efficient and
guaranteed
• Clarity - standby field staff report on-site
assessment directly to Duty Manager
• Shortening of reporting and decision
making from field staff to the MD (1 step
through Duty Manager)
Continued…
Scope
Critical Event Response Plan
• Multi disciplinary approach enabling influence of
events at site and MEOC, including:
– Providing support to community
– Agency evaluation of:
• Incident severity
• Community response capacity
• Required Agency or other GOA, Industry action/resources
– Providing real time advice and options to community
based emergency managers
– Improved accuracy and currency of information to the
Duty Manager
– Consistent Agency service to all communities
– Greater agility in resource provision to communities
Critical Event Criteria
Critical Event Response Plan
In order to confirm whether Agency response is
required, a critical event will be assessed
against one or all of the following criteria:
• Multiple fatalities (5) or Injuries (10+),
• Any evacuation that cannot be accommodated
within the community or where the municipality
activates its Municipal Emergency Plan or
components thereof
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Critical Event Criteria
Critical Event Response Plan
• Disruption of Critical Community Services
i.e. Fire, Police, Hospital, Emergency
Social Services, utilities (water treatment,
phones, electricity, gas etc), Major
Transportation Routes, Emergency
Management Systems, 911, emergency
warning systems, etc. or the potential
disruption of any of the aforementioned
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Critical Event Criteria
Critical Event Response Plan
• Any event where the Community has requested
assistance from AEMA, or is likely to request
assistance, or where there has been a major
deployment of other GOA resources, e.g. Alberta
Environment Support Emergency Response
Team (ASERT), Dangerous Goods Rail Safety
(DGRS), Sustainable Resource Development –
Wildfire Protection Division (SRD-WFPD),
Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) etc
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Critical Event Criteria
Critical Event Response Plan
• A major incident outside Alberta that may have the
potential to involve or affect a large number of Albertans,
e.g. earthquake or Tsunami, air crash, repatriation from a
foreign land, or an incident where assistance may be
requested from the Province
• A critical, world-wide event that may generate
Government or public interest, action, or enquiry, e.g. BC
Earthquake, tsunami (SE Asia), international terrorist
event (9/11), Katrina
• Any incident that is beyond the scope or the resources of
the Community to provide an adequate response at
present or in the immediate future
Continued…
Critical Event Criteria
Critical Event Response Plan
• Event with Political Considerations:
– Involvement or questions by Members of
Cabinet or MLA's regarding the event
– Potential problems with current laws,
Legislative process or Government
Regulations or Codes
– Potential for serious Provincial liability
– To reassure the public that the Government is
responding and providing assistance.
Critical Event Support
Critical Event Response Plan
• A full time duty officer dedicated to this
plan in interim
• Building Agency capacity in operational
readiness
• Creating media monitoring capability
Role of Duty Manager
• Duty Manager assumes role of Agency manager
for each critical event
• Assesses incident against critical event criteria
• Deploys field staff if required
• Ensures Managing Director connected to event
• Responsible for all measures necessary to
assist community in bringing event to conclusion
• Hands event to GEOC if the event requires
provincial coordination
Role of Field Staff
• Field staff on-call for 7days on rotation
• On notice to deploy ASAP, but no later
than 60 minutes
• As well as nearest on-call staff, resident
field staff (District Officer and/or Fire
Safety Officer) may also respond
Role of Field Staff
• At the event, field staff will:
– Rapidly assess the situation
– Request resource assistance or augmentation
from Duty Manager
– Provide advice to community/Industry to
positively influence outcome
– Ensure a joined-up approach from all GoA
representatives
– Above all – they are there to connect with you
and help!
The value added
• We will be there
• Integrated, multi-disciplinary operational
response
• Complete streamlining of system
• ‘Whole Agency’ approach
Operational Readiness
The ‘ARC’
• The Agency is creating an Agency Operational
Readiness Centre (ARC)
• This does not replace CIC, but in partnership,
builds our own capability to efficiently gather the
information we need, providing:
– 24/7/365 single point of contact
– constant monitoring capability provincially, nationally
and internationally.
– standard operating guidelines and response protocols
for all critical events
Operational Concept
Agency Readiness Centre
• Ability to collect, collate, analyze and
disseminate information from all sources
• Ability to track and monitor all Agency
responses
• Ability to track the location of all Senior
Agency Managers and field staff
Closing remarks…
• The road from Wabamun is a well traveled
one
• Never say never……
• Getting ‘out there’…!
Questions?
Colin Lloyd
Director of Community
Programs
Alberta Emergency
Management Agency
[email protected]
(780) 415 9003 – office
(780) 983 6795 - cell