Emergency Planning is an easily understood term that many still use to describe the activity of contingency planning. Emergency planning differs from business continuity and resilience in that it focuses primarily on incident response and incident management and it is normally the domain of first responders like police, fire and rescue, ambulance and coastguard services.

One of the key mistakes we see organizations making when we audit their plans or follow on from previous consultancy engagements is their failure to acknowledge or understand the work of the emergency services. With our experience in civil contingencies planning we are able to provide a better solution which integrates local emergency responders’ plans with those of the organization (and across the site where it is shared).

Our short video below discusses this issue and offers some basic advice for companies wishing to develop business continuity plans that work:

Emergency Planning - Teamwork in Action

The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 wraps up the emergency planning activity under the banner of civil protection and places various statutory duties on category 1 and category 2 responders (defined in the Act).

The latest Cabinet Office guidance on Emergency Response and Recovery provides detailed guidance for emergency planning specialists and has recently been reissued (summer 2009) following a period of consultation.  The guidance also updates information relating to the recovery phase following an incident which is often neglected in organizations’ planning, training and exercising.

Call us today on 0846 434 775 to arrange an appointment so that we can discuss your particular emergency planning requirements.