Mark Williams Assistant Director (Emergency

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Mark WilliamsAssistant Director(Emergency
Contingency Planning)
Planning for Major Emergencies
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Planning for Major Emergencies

• Presentation Content
• CCA 2004 Planning Requirements.
• LRF Current Planning Arrangements
• LRF New Planning Requirements
• LRF Planning Example Pandemic Flu
• Summary

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Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements

• Category 1 Responders must
• Maintain plans for preventing an emergency.
• Maintain plans for reducing, controlling or
  mitigating the effects of an emergency.
• Maintain plans for taking other action in
  connection with the emergency.

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Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements

• Plans must
• Include procedure for determining whether an
  emergency has occurred.
• Make provision for
• training of key staff
• exercising the plan
• reviewing the plan
• Have regard to risk assessments.

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Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements

• Types of Plan
• Generic
• Site Specific
• Multi Agency Plans permitted and should involve
• Category 2 Responders
• Organisations not subject to CCA e.g. Military
• Have regard to voluntary organisations

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The Cycle of Emergency Planning
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Validate in exercises and in response
Train Key Staff
EMBED
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Issue and disseminate
Maintain, review and Consider revision
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Take direction from Risk Assessment
Agree and Finalise
CONSULT
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Determine actions and responsibilities
Set Objectives
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Gloucestershire Local Resilience Form
(LRF)Contingency Planning Arrangements
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Command Structure

• Civil Contingencies Secretariat Cabinet Office
• Regional Resilience Team (RRT) Bristol
• Local Resilience Forum (LRF) Gloucestershire
• LRF Planning Sub-Group

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LRF Planning Sub-Group

• Established January 2001
• Multi-Agency Plans completed
• Major Incident Procedures Manual (MIP)
• CBRN
• Media
• Search and Rescue
• COMAH/REPPIR

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LRF Planning Sub-Group

• New Planning Requirements
• Risk Assessment
• Fuel
• Central Government Capabilities Programme

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The Capabilities Programme

• CBRN
• Mass Casualties
• Mass Fatalities
• Mass Evacuation
• Site Clearance
• Warning and Informing the Public
• Flooding (recent addition)
• Infectious Diseases Animal/Plant
• Infectious Diseases Human (Pandemic Flu)

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Avian Flu
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Pandemic Flu
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Avian Flu
Avian Flu
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Pandemic Flu
Human Flu
Avian Flu
Pandemic Flu
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Pandemic Flu
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Pandemic Flu

• 1918 Spanish Flu, UK Deaths 250,000
• 1957 Asian Flu, UK Deaths 33,000
• 1968 Hong Kong, Deaths in England Wales
  30,000

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LRF Response

• Identify an LRF Pandemic Flu Lead
• Establishing an LRF Pandemic Flu Focus Group from
  the LRF Health Group
• Identify Co-ordinators from each Agency

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3 PCT CO-ORDINATORS
POLICE
LOCAL AUTHORITY (EMS)
AMBULANCE TRUST
PARTNERSHIP TRUST
HOSPITALS FOUNDATION TRUST
3 PCT CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEES
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Business Continuity

• Reduction of over 30/35 Staff
• Disruption to the supply chain
• Loss of services

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Civil Contingencies Act 2004Planning Requirements

• SUMMARY
• CCA/Capabilities Programme/Risk Assessment will
  generate large multi-agency planning workload.
• Gloucestershire LRF well placed to meet these new
  challenges.

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Integration
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