Emergency Preparedness

Public Safety Canada works in collaboration with other federal departments and provincial and territorial governments, academia, national associations and non-governmental organizations to strengthen national emergency preparedness including planning, training, exercises, and sharing lessons learned. These efforts, taken prior to an emergency, are aligned with Government of Canada priorities and are aimed at making Canadian communities safe and resilient.

Emergency Management Planning

Public Safety Canada promotes a common approach to developing emergency management plans to strengthen the Government of Canada's capacity to prevent, protect against, respond to and recover from major disasters and other emergencies.

Emergency Management Training

Public Safety Canada provides leadership for federal emergency management training through its partnership with the Canada School of Public Service and its ongoing work with federal partners and academia.

Emergency Management Exercises

Government, first responders and military officials work together in exercises that simulate emergency scenarios such as natural disasters, health threats and terrorist attacks to validate plans, training, etc., and identify areas for improvement.

Capability Improvement Process

The Capability Improvement Process (CAIP) is a whole-of-government approach to the collection and analysis of government response activities in both exercises and response.

National Public Alerting System

A public-private-partnership with the broadcasting sector to effectively warn Canadians of imminent threats to life or safety.

All-Hazards Risk Assessment

The All-Hazards Risk Assessment (AHRA) will help identify, analyze and prioritize the full range of potential non-malicious and malicious threats.

CBRNE Resilience Strategy and Action Plan for Canada

The Strategy promotes the vision of an integrated capability across Canada by framing a scalable, responsive, dynamic, sustainable and evidence-based approach for all contributors to CBRNE events. This approach is equally based on the Four Components of Emergency Management: prevention / mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.

Communications Interoperability

From the perspective of enhanced public safety, communications interoperability refers to the ability of emergency personnel to communicate between jurisdictions, disciplines, and levels of government, using a variety of systems, as needed and as authorized.

Canadian Profile of the Common Alerting Protocol CAP-CP

Managed by the Federal/Provincial/Territorial Communications Interoperability Working Group, who is supported by the advice and efforts of the CAP-CP 1.0 Specification Committee.