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  • Introduction
  • Modules
    • Module 1: Preparing To Be An ESS Responder
    • Module 2: ESS Overview
    • Module 3: ESS Responder Functions
    • Module 4: Scenario
  • Resources

Role of ESS

The emergency management structure, as it applies to ESS, can be broken down into two primary functions – planning and response. The ESS Director who is appointed by the local Emergency Program Coordinator (EPC), plays an important role in planning and managing ESS in each community. As a critical component of the local authority’s emergency management program, ESS plays an important role in:

  • Assisting people to remain independent and self-sufficient
  • Assisting people to meet their basic survival needs during a disaster
  • Reuniting families separated by disaster
  • Providing people with accurate and up-to-date information about the situation at hand
  • Assisting people to re-establish themselves as quickly as possible after a disaster

Module Menu

  • Module 2: ESS Overview
    • Emergency Management
      • Role of ESS
      • Role of the Local Authority
      • Role of the Provincial Government
      • Role of the Federal Government
    • Emergency Management System
      • Common Response Model
      • Standard Response Goals
      • ICS Principles for ESS
      • Response Structure Levels
    • ESS Services
      • ESS Site
    • ESS Response Process
      • ESS Activation Levels
      • Host Communities
      • Mobile Support Teams
      • ESS Support Organizations

About

  • About Us
  • Acknowledgements

Partners

  • JIBC Emergency Management Division
  • Emergency Management BC
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