CZER Consulting Services

At CZER, we consult on a variety of topics related to emergency services including:

Emergency Medical Services subjects such as:

  • EMS education and program development

  • Fleet design and electrification

  • Facility design

  • EMS systems development

  • Communications and AI technologies

  • Systems resilience and graceful degradation of EMS systems

  • Strategic planning informed by more than three decades of EMS change.

  • Logistics

  • EMS operation on land, water and austere settings

  • Technical innovation for EMS systems

  • Human factors, workflow, and operational solutions to operational problems and facility design.

  • EMS differences in Canada, United States and internationally

  • Security systems design for EMS facilities and operations

  • Environmental solutions for existing EMS organizations and facilities





Search and Rescue subjects such as:

  • Ground SAR (GSAR)

  • K-9 Live Find and Human Remains Detection

  • International deployments and expeditionary logistics

  • Disaster preparation and response

  • Alpine, equine, remote and austere SAR on land and waterfronts

  • Specialized environments such as urban, subarctic, desert and others

  • Marine SAR

  • SAR differences in Canada and the United States

  • SAR equipment and vehicles

  • SAR systems design

  • SAR communications and technology solutions

  • Security systems and design for SAR

  • Heavy Urban SAR (HUSAR)

  • Air and advanced SAR

  • Environmental solutions to existing SAR operations

Other Topics:

  • Disaster preparation, response and emergency management

  • Many other services need similar topics that CZER can help with. Examples include:

    • Fire services and police services, including tactical

    • K-9 services

  • Water operations and rescue for first responders

  • Medical facility and education systems design

  • Human and technology solutions for medical professionals such as nurses and physicians

  • Fleet, vehicle design and selection for urban, remote, austere and non-ground response

    Our Faculty of 5 Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) offer consulting for Canadian, American or international clients and our SAR team members have deployed and trained clients on 4 continents.

    For consulting in security, law enforcement or fire services CZER partners with other specialized consulting firms who are expert in these areas.

Jesse Beckow, A-EMCA
Executive Director

Some of CZER's present and past consulting clients include:

Loring SAR/LorSAR (2024 to present)

The Healing Arts Foundation (2023-present)

Ontario Health (2020-2021)

Toronto Paramedic Services (2006-2012)

Palladin EMS (2008)

University of Toronto Campus Police (2004-2010)

Advanced Rescue Consulting (2004-2010)

Keagen Grace, CCP, EMT-P

Critical and Advanced Care EMS

K-9 SAR, Advanced SAR

Michael Whitehead, EMR-IT

Moshe Schwartz

Logistics and Expeditionary Logistics

Industrial Systems and Tools SME

Rescue Systems and Tools SME

Pedagogy and Education SME

Wilderness First Responder and EMR/EMT specialist

Bob de Beukelaer

Dogmaster
SAR and K-9 Scholar in Residence