Calgary building safety response teams

Coordinated Safety Response Team

The Coordinated Safety Response Team (CSRT) Investigates public safety issues arising from vacant or derelict homes or commercial buildings and provides a coordinated approach to identifying potentially unsafe living conditions at rental properties in the city through a joint initiative with Alberta Health Services' Safe Housing Inspection program (SHIP). 

Members of the CSRT include:

Dealing with problem properties

The Community Safety Response Team (CSRT) deals with problem properties throughout the City. It’s a multi-agency Team that tackles issues from outside of the property as well as the inside. The Team makes sure that if concerns are brought forward from neighouring callers, they are addressed. The Team addresses unauthorized access into vacant properties by proactively checking on these properties or by receiving 311 complaints. Safety Codes and Calgary Fire are the primary partners we use when it comes to securing the property if unauthorized access is witnessed. The majority of property owners proactively secure their properties once notified of the breach and work with the CSRT to address other concerns.

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Safety Response Unit

The Safety Response Unit is a City of Calgary team designed to act quickly, responding to incidents and helping to ensure public safety around construction sites and buildings. They proactively build strategies that enable the construction and building industry to decrease risk through identifying hazards.

Responsibilities 

  • Manage all emergency incidents
  • Respond to and manage citizen complaints
  • Participate in community outreach programs
  • Inspection of construction sites, unsafe and derelict buildings
  • Investigate all incidents that occur on sites where safety has been compromised
  • Proactively build strategies to reduce risks to the public
  • Identify potential hazards through inspections

Construction site safety resources

Questions or concerns?

Please call 3-1-1

Planning Services Centre

Hours:
Monday - Friday
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. (MT)

Live chat:
calgary.ca/livechat

Call:
403-268-5311

In person: 
Planning Services Centre,
3rd floor, Municipal building 
800 Macleod Trail SE

Book an eAppointment for in person services at appointment.calgary.ca

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