Emergency Management and Public Safety Policy

How governments prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters and emergencies.

GOVT-440 Year 4 3 credits 12 lessons planned ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Government Studies

Course content

  1. 1Hazards and riskComing
  2. 2The emergency management cycleComing
  3. 3Emergency management law in CanadaComing
  4. 4Incident command systemsComing
  5. 5Roles of each level of governmentComing
  6. 6Wildfires, floods and extreme weatherComing
  7. 7Public health emergenciesComing
  8. 8Critical infrastructureComing
  9. 9Risk communicationComing
  10. 10Recovery and rebuildingComing
  11. 11Building resilienceComing
  12. 12Lessons from major emergenciesComing

Requirements

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.

Description

How governments prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters and emergencies.

Part of the Arts & Social Sciences stream, typically taken in year 4.