Emergency Preparedness and Public Safety

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-199
Author(s):  
Marcus J. Wishart ◽  
Satoru Ueda ◽  
John D. Pisaniello ◽  
Joanne L. Tingey-Holyoak ◽  
Kimberly N. Lyon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Public Safety

Protecting the Mental Health of First Responders: Legal and Ethical Considerations

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (S1) ◽  
pp. 56-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lainie Rutkow ◽  
Lance Gable ◽  
Jonathan M. Links
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
First Responders ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
The Public

The public safety, human services, health, and relief workers who comprise the first wave of a response to natural or man-made disasters play a critical role in emergency preparedness. These first responders provide care and services in the immediate aftermath of emergencies and may remain in affected communities for weeks or months. They often work long hours under stressful conditions, witnessing the human harms, physical destruction, and psychological devastation that can accompany disasters.

scholarly journals PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF EMERGENCY CONSEQUENCES IN CANADA: LEGAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS

2017 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Ирина Тимошенко ◽  
Irina Timoshyenko
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Federal Legislation ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Legislative Regulation ◽  
Executive Agencies

Legal and organizational aspects of prevention and relief of emergency in Canada are considered. On the base of analysis of federal legislation particular features of different types of emergency situation provided in the Emergencies Act 1988 are studied. Appraisal of different types of emergency situation classification for practical activities of competent bodies, which are responsible for planning and organization of system of measures against emergency situation, is made. Constitutional division of competencies between federal and provincial authorities respecting matters of federal and provincial concern is studied. The system of responsible bodies, powers and duties of Governor General, main directions of Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and executive agencies under its auspice activities are explored. Special attention is given to common principles of legislative regulation and practices of prevention and overcoming of emergency situations in the provinces of Canada.

scholarly journals The supreme court of Canada and the offender’s right to be transferred to serve his sentence in Canada: interpreting the international transfer of offenders act in light of Canada’s national and international human rights obligations

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-123
Author(s):  
Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right

ABSTRACT In September 2013 in the case of Divito v Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) the Supreme Court of Canada dealt with the issue of whether section 6(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Charter, which grants Canadians the right to enter Canada was violated in a case where the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness declined to consent to the transfer of a Canadian citizen to serve his sentence in Canada where the sentencing state had consented to the transfer. Another issue was whether sections 8(1) and 10(1)(a) and 10(2)(a) of the International Transfer of Offenders Act, which granted the Minister the discretion to consent or not to consent to the transfer, were contrary to section 6(1) of the Charter. In resolving the above issues, the Court referred to its earlier jurisprudence, academic publications and international law. Although the Court agreed with the government that the appeal was moot because the appellant had left the USA by the time it was heard, it held that it retained “a residual discretion to decide the merits of a moot appeal if the issues raised are of public importance” and that this case was one of public importance because “[t]he issues are likely to recur in the future and there is some uncertainty resulting from conflicting decisions in the Federal Court.” The purpose of this article is to highlight the interpretative tools invoked by the court and the implications of the judgement.

scholarly journals Continuity of Constitutional Government during a Pandemic: Considering the Concept in Canada's Emergency Management Act

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-298
Author(s):  
Andrew McDougall
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Research Note ◽  
The Self ◽  
Constitutional Government ◽  
British Prime Minister

This research note examines the undefined meaning of the government's obligations to ensure “continuity of constitutional government” (CCG) as provided for in section 4(l) of the Emergency Management Act, S.C. 2007, c. 15 (Canada, 2007). Specifically, that section gives the minister of public safety and emergency preparedness the responsibility for “establishing the necessary arrangements for the continuity of constitutional government in the event of an emergency,” but the term is itself undefined. The article will canvass the origin of the term and its relationship to other so-called continuity of government (COG) concepts, along with some legal written opinion on what the term might in practice mean, should the minister ever be charged with discharging this responsibility. It will conclude with some final thoughts on the relevance of the CCG concept to the current pandemic. Given that the COVID-19 virus has infected Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, the prime minister's wife, forced a drastically reduced and possibly “virtual” federal Parliament, placed the British prime minister in intensive care and led to the self-isolation of many world leaders, the topic is relevant to Canada in 2020.

Transforming Health Care Coalitions From Hospitals to Whole of Community: Lessons Learned From Two Large Health Care Organizations

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 712-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Cormier ◽  
Michael Wargo ◽  
Walter Winslow
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Hospital Systems ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
The Common

ABSTRACTA health care emergency preparedness coalition (coalition) is a group of health care organizations, public safety agencies, and public health partners that join forces for the common cause of making their communities safer, healthier, and more resilient. Coalitions have been characterized as being focused on hospital systems instead of the health care of the community as a whole. We discuss 2 examples of coalition partners that use a more inclusive approach to planning, response, and recovery. The first is a large health care system spread across 23 states, and the other is a public safety agency in northeast Pennsylvania that took the lead to address the preparedness and response toward a large influx of burn patients and grew to encompass all aspects of community health care. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;9:712–716)

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