Environmental Health and Risk Management Agency

The health and environmental safety and risk management agency of the Metropolis Nice Côte d’Azur is responsible for coordination, Counsellor and to bring strategic expertise at the Metropolis level in the event of a health, environmental or security crisis.

His purpose is to establish an organization adapted to the new needs for the protection of the population and the living environment of the whole of the Metropolis Nice Côte d’Azur, while being flexible to switch to mode “ emergency during crisis management.

The creation of this agency was voted by the Metropolitan Council of 23 July 2020.

3 categories of crises identified
👉Sanitary : Epidemics such as Covid 19 or others

👉Environment : Tempests, floods, landslides, forest fires, earthquakes...

👉Security : Attacks, transport of dangerous goods...

2 main missions to respond to crises and to anticipate these crises
👉Coordinate emergency responses in the event of a crisis

👉Work upstream them in a forward-looking dimension to reduce their impact on the population