Emergency plan assessment tools
Last updated on February 21, 2024These tools assess your current capacity, structures, and identify hazards and risks to help reduce the potential consequences of an emergency.
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Hazard, risk, and vulnerability analysis
The Hazard, risk, and vulnerability analysis (HRVA) is a process to identify hazards that may cause an emergency, and the potential consequences. Understanding this helps a community establish priorities, plans and strategies to prevent or reduce the risk.
Evaluating risk is a mandate in Section 2(1) of the Local Authority Emergency Management Regulation. This applies to those defined as a local authority (such as a local fire department, government, or Regional District).
An HRVA report is comprehensive and takes time and resources to develop. Because of the complexity we created a free, online HRVA tool. Information about your community and the surrounding areas is entered. The tool then produces a report that compiles the data to inform emergency planning. The HRVA tool can be used online (see below for details) or offline, by visiting the document library and downloading the forms.
Online HRVA tool
The online HRVA tool is available to Indigenous communities and Local Authority representatives who have a Business BCeID account.
There are some steps you must complete to gain access to the HRVA tool. Visit the first time login page for details.
Offline HRVA documents
The HRVA tool is available as a series of documents for anyone to use. These are in the HRVA document library.
Critical infrastructure assessment
Critical infrastructure (CI) refers to services and assets that are essential to residents during an emergency.
Assessing your critical infrastructure will:
- Identify and analyze vulnerable goods, services, and local assets
- Identify ways to increase robustness and decrease redundancies
- Develop recommendations for CI during every stage of emergency management
Indigenous Nations and local governments can use the CI Assessment tool to complete an analysis of their infrastructure.
- CI Assessment Tool (XLSX)
- CI Assessment Tool – Consolidated Example (PDF) - An example of a completed worksheet
These resources help individuals invited to participate in the assessment and the champion (the selected lead for the assessment) through the process.
- Getting Started Guide (PDF) - Guidance for managing the overall assessment
- Hazard Scenario Development Instructions (PDF) - Guidance for developing an appropriate hazard scenario
- Participant’s Guide (PDF)
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PowerPoint presentation created to help guide the kick-off meeting |
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PowerPoint presentation created to help guide the follow-up meeting |
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An introduction to CI and the CI assessment process |
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An overview of the CI assessment process and how to use the tool |
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Describes how the CI assessment data will be used |
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Optional visual aid for the workshops |
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Templates and examples |
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Template summary report |
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Template recommendations |
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Template email |
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Template email |
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Template email |
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