Are you prepared for an emergency?
Help increase the campus community’s resilience, emergency awareness and preparedness by joining us on September 6-8. Find our Emergency Preparedness booth on Imagine UBC at Main Mall on September 6, and Ride the Quake Cottage, an earthquake simulator at University Commons outside the Nest on September 7 and 8.
Emergency Preparedness Week is May 1-7, 2022
Join us during Emergency Preparedness Week (EP Week) to increase our community’s resilience by learning about emergency preparedness. We all have a role to play in an emergency, and we want you to Get Informed, Get Prepared, and Take Action so you, your loved ones, and your community are better prepared for emergencies.
Join us for Welcome Back week: July 26-30, 2021
Safety & Risk Services has put together a series of online sessions that will launch the week of July 26-30, 2021, to help support a safe and healthy work environment and a smooth transition to campus in September 2021. We invite you to join us during this week to hear from guest speakers, subject matter experts from SRS, and enroll in the online series that can be taken at your own convenience and pace.
Planning for disaster a campus-wide initiative for UBC Vancouver
UBC falls outside the City of Vancouver’s jurisdiction and as a result, the university is responsible for the types of services most universities typically don’t manage — including staffing and sourcing their own emergency response operations (with the exception of police, fire and ambulance).
VPFO teams join forces to successfully test emergency water supply
Teams from Energy & Water Services, Building Operations and Safety & Risk Services joined forces in mid-August to test UBC Vancouver’s emergency water supply.