Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

Disaster’ refers to an event that causes damage, destruction, interruption of services and important activities, and possibly casualties. A ‘major incident’ is an adverse impact that requires immediate attention from emergency services and a switch from normal to emergency working patterns. Plans should be networked.

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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.

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Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Clarity, trust, welfare, care and equity are needed, now. References Alexander, D.E.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In the United Kingdom, the status of emergency planning has declined while it has been enhanced in other countries. Absurdly, it is not treated as a profession and has no career progression or higher education requirements (I should add that the field has an intellectual history that stretches back 101 years).

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Emergency Planning

APRIL 9, 2020

As the university world undergoes a radical metamorphosis and transfers its activity to remote working and distance learning, we are all asked to "do more" to achieve this seismic shift. If we are asked to do more, it must be at the expense of some other activity. Times Higher Education , April 9, 2020. What use is it then?

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 16, 2021

Most heart-rending was a collection of about 100 children's school satchels, symbolic of an education blown apart by the disaster. The ruined reactors, the cryological barrier and all the impedimenta that maintains it, the businesslike air of programmed activity. Photograph albums, statuettes, wedding pictures, cameras, even clothes.

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