Disaster Management Planning
The World continues to experience a wide variety of natural and human induced disasters. These are adversely impacting our heritage as well. These disasters include earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, fires, and wildfires.
Approach
Disaster Management involves planning what to do before, during and after a disaster or emergency occurs. Through further understanding these hazards, and assessing a structure’s behaviour to them, we can better prepare for disasters.
A risk-informed, performance-based approach exists offering opportunities to better understand objectives, identify credible hazards and develop alternatives that allow stakeholders (owners, government, etc.) to make risk-informed decisions as to how best protect heritage and meet disaster mitigation objectives.
This approach provides tremendous value including:
- Preserving our heritage
- Embrace local heritage, resources, and methodologies
- Limit damage and aesthetic impact
- Cost-effective solutions
- Maintain functionality of sites
- Enhance life safety
Services and Deliverables
Services
- Establish Objectives
- Hazard Assessments
- Risk Assessments
- Disaster Prevention Planning
- Disaster Mitigation Planning
- Emergency Access Assessments
- Emergency Egress Assessments
- Emergency Drills
- Emergency Response Equipment Planning
- Disaster Preparedness Planning
- Disaster Response Planning
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Capacity Building
Deliverables:
- Hazard & Risk Assessments
- Disaster Prevention & Mitigation Plans
- Disaster Preparedness Plans
- Disaster Response Plans
- Disaster Recovery Plans
- Emergency Evacuation Plans
- Emergency Access Plans
- Emergency Management Plans
- Training Programs
