Build resilience through smarter risk management
Risk Engineering and Advisory Services (REAS) helps your business uncover hidden exposures and build forward-looking risk management plans.
Expert insights that help you stay ahead
Work with industry experts who help you identify risks early and make informed decisions.
Strategies tailored to your business
Apply guidance shaped to your operations, culture, and goals to reduce risk where it matters.
Practical support for business continuity
Protect long-term performance with risk engineering-led solutions and proven, real-world support.
Services that keep you ahead of business risks
We help mid-to-large businesses identify and manage insurable and non-insurable risks, including Property, Liability, Fleet, Operational and Business Resilience, and Natural Hazard risks. Our practical consulting and technical services are available to businesses across Canada, including those not insured by Aviva.
Standard
Ex. For businesses starting their resilience journey and seeing a baseline view of risk with practical, actionable improvements.
On‑site, remote, desktop, and self‑assessed risk evaluations
Market reports and risk improvement recommendations
Construction and sprinkler plan reviews
Customized
Ex. For businesses with established risk foundations seeking deeper insight, tailored risk engineering support, and ongoing resilience improvements.
Service planning, stewardship (midyear), and annual summary reports
Account engineering and expert consulting
In‑person briefings on exposures, insights, and improvements
Third-party corporate risk management with on-site deployment
Drone and thermographic imaging assessments
Specialty
Ex. For resilient, highly interdependent businesses needing advanced continuity planning, scenario testing, and operational resilience analysis.
Business continuity planning and annual testing
Supply/value chain mapping, exposure identification, and scenario testing
Supply chain risk assessment
Business & operational resilience risk assessment
How we work with you
We partner with your teams to understand your risks, align with your goals, and deliver the right support at every stage.
Stage 1: Assessment
Baseline risk evaluation
We start by getting a clear, defensible view of your current risk landscape. Our team works with you to identify your critical assets, exposures, suppliers, and the operational dependencies your business relies on. We also assess your continuity maturity and identify vulnerabilities that could create disruption.
What you get:
- A clear view of your critical assets, key suppliers and operational dependencies
- A detailed assessment of key risk exposures and single points of failure
- A prioritized view of your resilience gaps
- A factual foundation that supports confident decision-making and risk prioritization
Stage 2: Planning and implementation
Strategy development and mitigation pathway
Based on risk assessments, we turn insights into an actionable strategy. We collaborate with you to create a prioritized mitigation and resilience roadmap aligned to expectations, operational realities, and business needs
What you get:
- A defined set of risk and resilience priorities tailored to your business
- Mitigation strategies across people, processes and infrastructure
- Scenario-specific response and contingency planning
- A phased, pragmatic implementation plan that moves you from diagnosis to measurable improvement
Stage 3: Ongoing monitoring
Continuous insight and resilience support
As your needs evolve, our support continues. We can provide ongoing monitoring and advisory support to help you respond to emerging risks, regulatory change, and supply chain challenges.
What you get:
- Regular reviews and updates to your continuity plans
- Scenario testing and stress simulations to validate resilience maturity
- Bespoke climate-risk and value (supply) chain intelligence
- A long-term strategic partnership and continuous resilience support
Our collaborative approach
Our risk specialists partner directly with businesses to deliver insights and recommendations that reduce risk and build long‑term resilience, with services available to any organization seeking expert risk insight and engineering solutions.
Get in touch with a risk specialist
Contact us today to learn how our Risk Engineering and Advisory Services can support your business.
Fees vary based on the services you need and the level of support required. We’ll work with you to define the right scope for your business.
The content on this page is for informational purposes only. It contains a summary of our different Risk Engineering and Advisory Services (REAS) that may be available to you. REAS described herein are subject to terms, conditions, and limitations set out in the applicable REAS agreement. REAS does not require the purchase of an insurance policy from Aviva Insurance Company of Canada. REAS is offered by Aviva Canada Services Inc., a subsidiary of Aviva Canada Inc. “Aviva” and the Aviva logo are trademarks used under license from the licensor.