Emergency Response Planning

• The key steps to emergency preparedness
• Establishing the planning team
• Identifying potential emergencies and assessing risk
• Assessing your organization’s emergency response capabilities
• Building the emergency response plan
• Implementing the plan: Preparing to Respond
• Evaluating effectiveness and continuous improvement

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Describe the key steps in emergency planning
• Identify and assess potential emergencies and their organization’s response capacity
• Create an emergency response plan outline
• Develop a process for continuous improvement of the plan

• Anyone with responsibility for developing, implementing and maintaining emergency response plans
• Managers and administrators, making decisions about the need or the improvement of emergency response plans
• Health and safety committee members making informed recommendations regarding their organization's emergency response plans
• Supervisors who may participate in emergency planning exercises

This course is delivered as an on-line e-learning course. All you need is a computer, access to the Internet - and you are ready to go! This e-learning course is designed to help you learn at your own pace and in your own environment at your own convenience.

Also available in French.

Content for this course was developed by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), and reviewed by labour, employer and government representatives to ensure a balanced perspective.

The cost is based on the total number of seats purchased. Multi-seat pricing is based on the single user seat price with the following volume discounts applied: