Emergency Response Planning

Develop and implement a response plan for emergencies at - or affecting - your workplace.

A collage of three workers planning for an emergency.

Single seat:: $64.00 ^*

Format:: e-Course

Language:: English/French

Duration:: 1.5 hours

Access:

Single Seat (90 days access from date of purchase)

Group Training (multi-seat) (1 year access from date of purchase)

Description

Preparing for emergencies protects lives, property, and the future of your organization. It’s an important part of your workplace health and safety program. This introductory course provides guidance for developing and implementing a response plan for workplace emergencies (emergencies at - or affecting - your workplace, including off-site emergencies involving your organization’s staff). The course does not address community-wide emergencies (pandemic planning) not directly related to the workplace.

Emergency Response Planning features case studies, review quizzes, and "Ask a Question". A final examination is also included.

Topics include:

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

Average time to complete this course is approximately 1 hour.

Target Audience

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 & safety committee members making informed recommendations regarding their organization’s emergency response plans
Supervisors who may participate in emergency planning exercises

Prerequisite

None

Delivery Method

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.

Review Process

CCOHS courses are unique in that they are developed by subject specialists in the field, and reviewed by representatives from labour, employers and government to ensure the content and approach are unbiased and credible.