Emergency Planning

January 5th, 2010

Photo of Royal Navy firefighters preparing to tackle a flight-deck fire.

Emergency Planning - Teamwork in Action

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.

The Civil Protection 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.

Why Veterus – because of the breadth and depth of multi-agency experience we bring.

Veterus have deep and broad experience across the lifecycle of Emergency Planning from creating the vision and policy through to recovery and post-incident debrief.  This experienced has been gained on several continents managing and directing incidents ranging from life-threatening fires, floods and aviation incidents to hurricane disaster relief, radiation emergencies and air-sea rescure operations.

Uniquely, we’ve worked in international civil and military emergency planning teams coordinating large, diverse groups as well as leading small teams on the ground (for example to carry out urban rescue or establish field hospitals and mortuary facilities).

We’ve also spent a lot of time working with operational and strategic teams planning for H5N1 and more recently H1N1 so we know a thing or two about pandemic preparedness.

In sum, our clients choose us because we deliver, innovate and walk our talk.

What range of services do we offer?

We can provide a range of advisory services ranging from interim management solutions and slow-burn cultural change programmes to world-class, rapid consultancy interventions.

If you have an urgent emergency planning requirement whether it is training, exercising, review and audit or starting from scratch on a specific emergency plan we can help – and it won’t cost the earth.

Call today and book a free 1 hour consultation to see how we can protect your enterprise or service.

Emergency Planning by @Veterus – safeguarding critical services and supplies – worldwide.

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