Ahead of anticipated flooding activity during the spring, Ecclesiastical Insurance has revealed it has prepared several flood risk mitigation guides for Canadian businesses and organizations.
In a release, the insurer warned that Canada’s spring can lead to significant snowmelt. Combined with the possibility of extreme rain activity and the limited capacities of sewer and stormwater infrastructures, “flooding can occur in virtually any part of Canada,” Ecclesiastical stated.
Ecclesiastical has called for Canadian businesses and organizations to be more “flood-smart,” which means developing comprehensive disaster recovery, business continuity, and crisis communications plans. To that end, the company’s risk control specialists have prepared four guides for businesses and organizations to refer to and learn from.
The four guides – “Are You Flood-Smart?”, “Preventing Backflows and Sewer Backups,” “Spring and Summer Risk Control,” and “Flood Damage Prevention Checklist” – are all available to access for free at Ecclesiastical’s online resource centre on the company’s website.
“Flooding events rank among the most frequent and costliest natural disasters worldwide, and we need to be prepared for everything – from community-wide catastrophic floods to less widespread local events,” said Ecclesiastical chief underwriting officer and vice president of risk control Colin Robertson. “It is our industry’s role to help prepare Canadians for these events and sharing our risk control expertise is one example of how we can help.”
