The Disaster Recovery Information Exchange (Toronto Chapter) is sponsoring
GTIME, (Greater Toronto Incident Management Exchange), a cross disciplinary project
that examines best practices in large scale disaster exercises and apply them
to Toronto. The
project has included reviews of similar exercises in other jurisdictions. Now in
partnership with BOMA and the City of Toronto, an exercise tailored for the
Greater Toronto Area.
The Greater Toronto Area needs to ensure preparedness for a wide
scale emergency, approaching the scale of September 11 in New York, the
bombings in London, the heat emergencies in Paris or the New Orleans hurricane.
Those cities demonstrated varying degrees of readiness in dealing with such large
scale events.
The Disaster Recovery Information Exchange, Toronto chapter (DRIE
Toronto) has conducted a research project, GTIME, to catalogue best practices
for large scale exercises. This project,
executed by volunteer members of DRIE Toronto, has sought out public and
private sector examples of exercises and organizations designed to challenge
and validate the ability of multiple responding agencies, government agencies,
non-profit organizations, infrastructure providers, and companies to work
together during emergencies, crises and disasters. The project team has
identified successful practices. Now with its partners BOMA and the City of Toronto, it has developed
an exercise for Toronto.
Final results will be documented in a white paper.
In this leadership role, DRIE Toronto is uniquely positioned
to bring together government, business and emergency services for a meaningful
dialogue on our collective abilities.
Consistent with a constant industry theme supporting public
and private plan collaboration GTIME exercises will focus directly on how the
public sector, critical infrastructure providers and the private sector
understand each other’s degree of preparedness and how they will integrate their plans to work together to
ensure smooth plan activation and cohesive incident management.
The exercises will explore how everyone can work together in
joint incident management across all business continuity phases beyond
emergency management.
In
the creation of the first exercise, resources have been drawn from various emergency
response and BCP communities around the world, critical infrastructure
providers, businesses and stakeholders as identified by the GTIME Team as well as BOMA members.
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