Critical Infrastructure Assessment

Emergency Management BC, in partnership with Defence Research and Development Canada and the Justice Institute of BC, developed the Critical Infrastructure (CI) Assessment Tool as a resource to assist local authorities with the analysis of CI in the context of hazard scenarios. The CI Assessment Tool and associated process was developed specifically to: 

• Focus on CI analysis at the local authority level
• Require minimal technical expertise
• Engage local actors from all CI sectors simultaneously

The primary purpose of the CI Assessment Tool and associated process is to provide a single venue for participants from various local authority departments/agencies to discuss what services they feel are critical to provide to residents during an emergency, the assets they need to provide those services, and what external goods and services they rely on in order to make those assets available. Ultimately, the process is intended to be a medium to facilitate discussion that will:

• Enhance overall awareness of CI dependencies among key actors
• Identify and analyze vulnerable goods & services
• Identify and analyze the criticality of local assets
• Identify areas where there is a need to increase robustness and redundancies
• Improve the resilience of communities and CI by developing and implementing recommendations related to prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery

Below is the suite of resources developed to assist the participants (the individuals invited to participate in the CI assessment process) and the champion (the individual selected to lead the CI assessment process) throughout the process: