What if

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What if?

• What if there was a flu pandemic
• What if there was a major incident in the town
  centre
• What if the Borough was flooded

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PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIES BUSINESS CONTINUITY
PLANNING What if?
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PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIESWhat
if?Superintendent Ged Gamble
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Potential Hazards to the Business Community of
Doncaster

• Sergeant Eric Mirfin
• South Yorkshire Police Doncaster

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• Examples
• Acts of Terrorism
• Real or Threat/Hoax
• Natural Disaster - Flooding, Pandemic
• Fire
• Interruption to major transport links

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Potential Effects on the Business Community

• Structural Damage (total loss)
• Physical Injury/Absence of Staff
• Loss of Major Utilities and I.T.

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• Disruption to normal work routine
• Transportation Issues
• Loss of Trade
• Damage to Reputation

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PREPARING FOR EMERGENCIESWhat if?
Counter-terrorism issues
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PLANNING FOR EMERGENCIES
Doncaster Town Centre Emergency Plan Elizabeth
Dobson- Emergency Planning Officer - Doncaster
Council Inspector Martin Scothern South
Yorkshire Police
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How it works

• Zones and zone co-ordinators
• Notice to Businesses
• CASED radio system

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Zone 1 Frenchgate Centre Zone 2 Duke St/Spring
Gdns/Cleveland St Zone 3 High Street/Priory
Place Zone 4 Scot Lane/SilverSt/ Market
Place Zone 5 Baxtergate/Church Way Zone 6 Markets
area Zone 7 North Bridge/St Georges Bridge Zone
8 East Laith Gate/Netherhall Road Zone 9 Sunny
Bar/Silver St/Princess St Zone 10 Hallgate/Wood
St/Civic Theatre Zone 11 Waterdale/Young
St/Kingsgate Zone 12 College Rd/CouncilHouse/
Courts Zone 13 Waterdale Bus Station/Car Park
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Evacuation points

• Business building plans should identify these for
  their own staff
• Several areas identified in the Plan
• Points used depends on evacuation area and reason
  for evacuation
• Information how do you get it?

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Evacuation Principles
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Evacuation or stay put - Issues

• Not always enough time
• Who warns ?
• How do you warn ?
• How many people ?
• Where are they ?
• What do you say ?
• Consider strangers
• Consider self evacuation

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Evacuation or stay put

• The purpose of evacuation is to move people from
  an area where they might be at risk to a place of
  safety

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Evacuation fast time issues

• Immediate
• toxic cloud wind direction
• explosive gas
• terrorist attack cordons / forensic

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Evacuation fast time issues

• Potential
• approaching hurricane
• expected flooding
• unearthed W.W.II bomb

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Reasons to stay put

• Transport may not be available
• Moving people into open may be greater danger
  secondary devices
• They MAY bring baggage/ pets etc
• They MAY be injured

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Evacuations - Considerations

• Convergence
• Assembly Points
• Transport - Needed ?
• Evacuation Centres
• Security
• Counselling
• Pets/Children/Medicines
• Long term accommodation

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Re Occupation

• Must start planning return at time of deciding to
  evacuate !
• Who decides ?
• Who decontaminates ?
• What about utilities and safety ?

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Emergency Communication

• Radio connecting in crisis
• Regular media
• Website media
• www.southyorkshireemergencies.co.uk

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PLANNING FOR EMERGENCIES

• Business Continuity
• Diane Glancy
• Business Continuity Officer
• Doncaster Council

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Business Continuity Planning

• Doncaster Council has a Duty to promote
  Business Continuity to Local Business and
  Voluntary Organisations

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Business Continuity Planning

• What is Business Continuity?
• A management process that helps manage the
  risks to the smooth running of an organisation or
  delivery of a service ensuring that it can
  operate to the extent required in the event of a
  disruption
• Emergency Preparedness - Government Guidance on
  Part 1 of CC Act, November 2004

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Business Continuity Planning

• What would this mean for your business if we had
  a situation in Doncaster which meant that you
  were unable to continue your day to day
  operation?
• Could you survive?
• What plans have you in place?

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Business Continuity Planning

• In 1996 the Manchester bombing had a devastating
  affect on local businesses
• Within a 700 metre cordon 600 businesses were
  affected.
• Within 6 months 250 had gone bust, the majority
  being SMEs
• Those organisations that survived had Business
  Continuity Plans in place and were able to
  continue to operate

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Business Continuity Planning

• Organisations that are affected by a disaster and
  do not have Business Continuity Plans in place
  have only a 50 chance of surviving the next 12
  months

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Business Continuity Planning

• If a business fails there could be major impacts
  on the Community
• Inconvenience and isolation
• Increased levels of tension leading to unrest
  and sometimes crime

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Business Continuity Planning

• What should organisations be doing as far as
  Business Continuity is concerned?
• We need plans not just for acts of terrorism
  but events such as Pandemic Flu, Severe Weather
  and disruptions to power supplies

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Business Continuity Planning

• If you already have plans are they robust and
  resilient?
• If you have no plans in place useful information
  can be found on the UK Resilience Website
  http//www.ukresilience.info/index.shtm and the
  MI5 Website http//www.mi5.gov.uk/

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Business Continuity Planning

• Other useful sites http//www.londonprepared.gov
  .uk/
• http//www.thebci.org/
• http//www.cirmagazine.com/services-guide.htm

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The Environment Agency

• Simon Hildon
• Preparing a flood plan

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Health issues

• Dr Wendy Phillips
• Consultant in Communicable Disease Control and
• Director - South Yorkshire Health Protection Unit
• Pandemic flu for small business.ppt

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Contact details

• www.southyorks.police.uk
• www.mi5.gov.uk
• www.thebci.org.uk
• www.ukresilience.info/home.htm
• www.environment-agency.gov.uk
• www.hpa.org.uk
• www.doncaster-chamber.co.uk
• www.southyorkshireemergencies.com

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Thank you for attending today

• If you would like further information please ask
  one of the presenters here today, or email
• emergency.planning_at_doncaster.gov.uk