Emergency Preparedness & Response
In a world where technical and mechanical systems, human resources, weather, climate change and many other factors may cause accidents, emergencies, and work stoppage, the risk that organizations will experience some degree of business interruption is high. Such emergencies or business interruptions can expose organizations to the risk that environmental spills will occur, private information compromised, contracts may be breached, or losses suffered. Emergency and business interruption preparedness and appropriate response planning are now essential to an organization's ability to minimize these risks and to protect its officers, directors and employees from liabilities arising as a result.
Fasken Martineau's emergency preparedness group provides strategic advice in relation to the development and implementation of business continuity and emergency preparedness and response plans aimed at minimizing loss that can arise from business interruption, and to ensure that the organization will respond to and recover from all manner of emergencies appropriately, including ones that result in unauthorized spills and discharges to the environment. We have particular expertise advising in relation to the development and implementation of effective environmental due diligence systems and on spill reporting and response requirements.
Recent representative experience is as follows:
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Strategic counsel to a major mining company in relation to management of risks arising from strike
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Counsel to infrastructure company in relation to on-going geotechnical threat posed by neighbouring industrial operation
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Counsel to large warehousing and industrial operation in the face of extreme flood threat
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