Emergency Preparedness

The following links provide information from external sources that may help you prepare for an environmental health emergency before it happens.

Drinking water operators, food premises owners and long-term care and childcare facilities should have emergency preparedness plans drafted as part of their regulatory requirements. For specific information on preparedness planning, please consult with your environmental health or licensing officer.

A step-by-step guide to creating an emergency response and contingency plan for small water systems:

Emergency response & contingency planning for small water systems

A template to help identify key information and to serve as a starting point for preparing an emergency response and contingency response plan:
Emergency response & contingency plan template

• PreparedBC: Provincial preparedness resouces.
• Getting prepared: A series of resources from the Government of Canada to help in identifying risks and planning for an emergency. 
• Maintaining your water supply well: General information to help well owners protect their wells.
• Hazardous materials & spring flooding: Information and advice to consider for safeguarding hazardous materials from potential floods.
• Emergency kit information: Information that should be included in an emergency kit.
• BC Renals Emergency Preparedness Information 
• Emergency Preparedness Information for Dialysis Patients booklet.   

• Food donations for during an emergency: Guidelines about the handling and storing of donated food at emergency social services centres.