BOMA CALGARY

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BOMA CALGARY
Emergency Response Planning Are You
Prepared? Thursday, Oct 13/05
Lea / Kitteringham 05
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Presenters

• Parnell Lea
• Security Manager CREIT Management L.P.
• A combined 1.5 million square ft of high-rise
  property.
• 17 years security experience

• Glen Kitteringham, M.Sc. CPP
• Senior Manager, Security Life Safety
  Brookfield Properties
• A combined 6.5 million square ft of retail and
  high-rise property.
• 15 years of security experience

Lea / Kitteringham 2005
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Disclaimer

• This presentation is based upon the presenters
  personal opinions and may not necessarily reflect
  the opinions of the employers of CREIT Management
  nor Brookfield Properties Corp.

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What this presentation is not

• A how-to blueprint for developing an emergency
  response plan.
• A step by step guide to resources available to
  develop a plan.
• We will not be listing resources to develop a
  plan.

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What will this presentation be?

• Challenging
• Thought provoking (hopefully)
• A discussion of what to consider before if and
  when everything breaks down?

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Why Prepare?

• Tornadoes
• Severe Snow Storms
• Blackouts
• Floods
• Chemical Spills
• Fire
• Explosion
• Water outage
• Power outage
• Computer system failure
• Flood External and internal
• Fuel Leak
• Bomb incident
• Civil disorder
• Workplace Violence Incident
• Barricade / hostage incident

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Emergency Management AlbertaGroupings
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The Alberta Framework
The Mission of EMA
To continuously lead and develop Alberta
emergency management, with all partners, in the
face of evolving natural and human induced
hazards.
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Putting things in perspective

• As far as any steps your groups can take to
  further their preparedness, we recommend that
  citizens be prepared to take care of themselves
  for the initial 72 hours after an event occurs.
   This allows responders to safely gain access to
  victims and have a higher success rate when they
  do reach them.  Your buildings and tenants can
  also make arrangements to care for themselves for
  that initial 72 hour period.
• Tony Messer Disaster Services Officer, CFD

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Gunnar Kuepper, IAEM Region 9 President,
September 1/05Hurricane Katrina Reports p. 73

• Too many people assume that in any disaster,
  government agencies will step in to save them.

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Thoughts to ponder

• What do we do if everything breaks down?
• You may be on your own, therefore
• You need to have a plan Pre-Planning is vital
• Senior management support is essential
• Plan should be bare bones
• Flexible
• People not positions important
• Speed of implementing the plan is important
• Training must be completed for the plan to be
  successful.

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Your providers (whoever they are?)

• Go ask them for
• Copies of their plans.
• Their capabilities. (Trust but verify R.R.)
• Does their plan work for you?
• Is it in conflict with your needs?
• Get commitments in writing (makes people think
  twice)

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Your employees

• How many employees will show up? Remember they
  have their own families to take care of and their
  own issues.
• Where do they live?
• Are they affected directly by the event?
• Do you have a plan to evacuate responding
  employees should the situation worsen?
• Do you have a plan to compensate those who do
  respond?

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Essential Services

• Can you maintain them and how?
• Gas
• Electricity
• Water
• Communications
• (Remember you are dependant upon others to
  provide certain services)

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Expect

• Emergency Services will be busy and/or possibly
  overwhelmed, and you may not see them for some
  time.
• More then one Emergency Situation may be present.
• Panic and chaos.
• Criminals attempting to take advantage of the
  situation.

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Planning

• Needs a commitment
• Resources including
• Trained and knowledgeable personnel
• Time
• Energy
• A certain amount of money
• Equipment

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Something to think about

• Are you prepared or are you playing the odds?

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Questions?

• Contact information
• Glen Kitteringham 770-7063
• gkitteringham_at_brookfieldproperties.com
• Parnell Lea 268-9205
• plea_at_creit.ca