Emergency Planning
MAY 6, 2024
Wales has developed three regional emergency response coordination centres, but the rest of the UK is not following suit. For years, local authorities have been starved of funds and resources. As a result, many of them have done relatively little to develop emergency response capability beyond existing 'blue light' capabilities.
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 21, 2022
Wording of this kind is designed to defy the country's leading philosophers of logic, and let's remember that the Act is designed to tackle a major emergency–sorry, disaster. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Emergency Planning
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic. Planning is more a process than an outcome. Emergency response has three ingredients: plans, procedures and improvisation. The response must be fair and equitable. However, the pandemic must be managed at the local level.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
In the world as a whole, there has been a gradual process of demilitarisation of emergency response. Meanwhile, in Britain, there were shortcomings in the response to the 1999 Ladbroke Grove train crash, particularly in the treatment of the survivors. The lineaments of the system reflect military practice.
CCEM Strategies
MARCH 17, 2023
Provincial and local authorities are aware of the owners and operators of CI in their regions and together, they work to create and test emergency plans that will ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, long before an incident occurs.
CCEM Strategies
JULY 24, 2018
Provincial, as well as Local Authorities, are aware of the owners and operators of CI in their territory. Further, legislative and regulatory requirements prescribe a framework within which CI must plan and prepare for emergencies. CI can be stand-alone, or cross provincial or national borders. s interior will be restored.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 7, 2019
Myth 10: After disaster people will not make rational decisions and will therefore inevitably tend to do the wrong thing unless authority guides them. Reality: Emergency response should have made a transition from a military activity to a fully civilian one. Within this compass, most decision-making can be judged rational.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
130 
Let's personalize your content