City of Victoria Emergency Plan - EMERGENCY PLAN City of Victoria

The City of Victoria’s priorities and response goals will follow the objectives established by the BC Emergency Management System (BCEMS) as well as the objectives outlined in the City’s Official Community Plan: • The planning and delivery of emergency management is coordinated between governments, public agencies, service providers and community organizations. [...] The Emergency Plan is flexibly structured to ensure that a broad spectrum of emergencies and disasters and are supported with the following: • Adequate personnel, equipment and expertise; • Training and exercises; • Review of the Plan on an annual basis; • Familiarity with contents of the Plan by participating agencies and organizations; Emergency Plan March 2018 10 • Awareness of resources availa. [...] BC’s Local Authority Emergency Management Regulation states that a local authority must reflect in the local emergency plan, the potential emergencies and disasters that could affect all or any part of the jurisdictional area for which the local authority has responsibility, and the local authority's assessment of the relative risk of occurrence and the potential impact on people and property of t. [...] CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS: RESPONSE The City of Victoria’s concept of operations is consistent with the response and recovery sections of BCEMS and the EOC guidelines, and allows for scalability based on the needs arising from the emergency/disaster. [...] Information Head of EOC • Facilitate the accurate and timely Officer Engagement, communication of information to internal manager of and external stakeholders Engagement, EOC • Serve as the coordination point for all Strategic Director public information sources for the EOC Planning and • Establish the EOC Information Unit and Communications supervise all staff assigned as assistant Advisor inform.