Examples of technological and natural hazards?

Examples of technological hazards are:

• Fire.
• Explosion.
• Building collapse.
• Major structural failure.
• Spills.
• Unintentional release of products.
• Deliberate release of products (e.g., hazardous biological agents, or toxic chemicals).
• Other terrorist activities.
• Exposure to ionizing radiation.
• Loss of electrical power.
• Loss of water supply.
• Loss of communications.

Areas where flammables, explosives, or chemicals are used or stored should be considered as the most likely place for a technological hazard emergency to occur.

The risk from natural hazards is not the same across Canada but the list would include:

• Floods.
• Earthquakes.
• Tornadoes.
• Severe wind storms.
• Snow or ice storms.
• Severe extremes in temperature (cold or hot).
• Pandemic diseases like Covid 19 and influenza.

The possibility of one event triggering others must be considered. An explosion may start a fire and cause structural failure while an earthquake might initiate many of the technological events listed above.