National emergency preparedness communication
The UK lagging behind other nations in national public communication campaigns and strategies for emergency preparedness.
55 items
1 source
8 inquiries
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Inquiry recommendation
87match
FENN-152 - Consider national disaster planning desk for experience and emergency coordination
Consideration should be given to a national disaster planning desk where the experience gained from disasters and their investigation and civil emergencies can be retained. Advice on the coordination of individual emergency plans should also be available at a national level.
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terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
87match
MAI-141 - Nationally agreed format for all emergency plans
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unity, individual police services and JESIP should develop a nationally agreed format for all plans, placing JESIP at their centre.
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terms: emergency, national
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78match
MAI-135 - Action cards for emergency services in Major Incidents
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should oversee the development and implementation of action cards for the police, fire and rescue service, and ambulance service for use in a Major Incident. This should include the following: a....
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terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
74match
MAI-122 - Maintain radio communications during Major Incidents
The emergency services should prepare, train and exercise for how they will maintain effective radio communications between emergency responders on the ground, commanders and control rooms, during the response to a Major Incident.
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terms: communication, emergency
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-145 - Strategic Co-ordinating Group within two hours
The Home Office should consider the introduction of a national standard requiring a meeting of the Strategic Co-ordinating Group to take place no more than two hours after the declaration of a Major Incident where more than one emergency service is engaged in the response to that incident.
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terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-139 - Review and update JESIP Joint Doctrine
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and JESIP should review and, as necessary, update the Joint Doctrine: The Interoperability Framework (the Joint Doctrine) and Responding to a Marauding Terrorist Firearms Attack and Terrorist Siege: Joint Operating Principles for...
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terms: emergency, national
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69match
MAI-138 - Common terminology for non-Plato hazardous zones
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and JESIP should ensure that all emergency services use common terminology to describe the zoning of hazardous areas in non-Operation Plato Major Incident situations and that all services have a common understanding...
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terms: emergency, national
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69match
MAI-137 - Common terminology for Operation Plato zones
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and JESIP should ensure that all emergency services use common terminology to describe the Operation Plato hot, warm and cold zones and all have a common understanding of those terms.
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terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-136 - Awareness of specialist capabilities across services
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit and all local resilience forums should take steps to ensure, whether through multi-agency training and exercising or otherwise, that the members of each emergency service are aware of the specialist capabilities of...
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terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-120 - Consider air ambulance integration into response
The Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, ambulance service trusts, Air Ambulances UK, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and JESIP should consider whether air ambulances should be integrated into the emergency response to Major Incidents, including terrorist attacks, and, if so, how that is to be achieved.
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terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
69match
MAI-119 - Integrate air ambulances into Major Incident response
The Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, ambulance service trusts, Air Ambulances UK, Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and JESIP should consider what staff training and resources would be required to integrate air ambulance organisations into the emergency response to Major Incidents, including terrorist attacks.
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terms: emergency, national
Inquiry recommendation
66match
MAI-128 - National systems to record lessons from exercises
The Home Office and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities should ensure that there exist robust national and local systems to identify and record the lessons learned from all multi-agency exercises and ensure that change is implemented as a result, where change is indicated.
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terms: national
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66match
MAI-11 - Continue first aid and CPR in National Curriculum
As of September 2020, all primary and secondary school pupils were required to be taught health education, including first aid, as part of the National Curriculum. This involves children aged over 12 being taught CPR. This is necessary. The Department for Education should ensure that it continues.
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terms: national
Inquiry recommendation
62match
MAI-42 - SMG sharing of emergency response plans
SMG should review its processes to ensure that it shares with Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, British Transport Police and North West Ambulance Service its most current emergency response plans and policies for dealing with an incident at the Arena. It should apply this approach more generally to its operations.
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
62match
MAI-28 - Senior emergency service representation at LRFs
Each emergency service should ensure that it is represented at a senior level at every meeting of a local resilience forum.
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
61match
COVID-M2.17 - Public Emergency Information Portal
The UK government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and Northern Ireland Executive should develop an online portal for use in future civil emergencies, where members of the public can access information on the legal restrictions that apply in their area and any associated guidance. This portal should be easily accessible and its content should be written in straightforward and...
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
60match
63 - Radio Room in the TSR
It should be required by regulation that a Radio Room with facilities for external communications should be located in the TSR (para 19.179). On existing installations where the Radio Room is not in the TSR, these facilities should be in an Emergency Radio Room located in the TSR (para 19.180).
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terms: communication, emergency
Inquiry recommendation
57match
MAI-167 - Clarify Casualty Collection Point terminology
The terms Casualty Collection Point and Casualty Clearing Station are capable of being confused, one for the other, particularly in circumstances of stress. That happened on the night of the Attack. The National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider whether different and more distinct terms should be used for these two locations.
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terms: national
Inquiry recommendation
57match
MAI-151 - App for commander contact details
The Home Office, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider together whether an app giving ready access to the contact details for all on-duty and on-call commanders is feasible and, if so, likely to be of benefit in the response to a Major Incident.
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Inquiry recommendation
57match
MAI-140 - Review Major Incident plans for interoperability
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, the College of Policing, the Fire Service College, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit, individual police services and JESIP should review what changes need to be made to the Major Incident plans and Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters Operation Plato guidance in order to achieve the aims...
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terms: national
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57match
MAI-127 - Robust debrief systems for multi-agency exercises
The Home Office and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities should ensure that there exist robust national and local systems and sufficient resources to make sure that the debrief process following multi-agency exercises is effective to capture the lessons that need to be learned.
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53match
MAI-123 - GM Resilience Forum tri-service plan reviews
The Greater Manchester Resilience Forum should oversee, at least every six months, a regular tri-service review of the Major Incident plans used by Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and North West Ambulance Service. The purpose of that review should be to ensure that there is a common understanding by each emergency service of the...
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
53match
MAI-21 - Firearms officer training on Operation Plato
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and the College of Policing should ensure that all firearms officers, including firearms commanders, receive adequate training in Operation Plato, including in what such a declaration means and the demands it will place upon them. This should include instruction in the importance of zoning, communicating zoning decisions to other emergency services and joint working...
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terms: emergency
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52match
44 - Review of internal safety features in passenger vehicles
A review should be carried out by ATOC, with input from all interested bodies, on the ways in which internal safety features may be modified and standardised to provide the best practicable means of emergency exit under accident conditions, including vehicles lying on their side, to include the provision of emergency lighting and standardised public announcements (paras 11.11,...
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terms: emergency
Inquiry recommendation
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77 - Helicopter flight following system
Operators should adopt a flight following system for determining at short notice the availability and capacity of helicopters in the event of an emergency. This system could be either a system operated by the individual operator or a North Sea-wide system (para 20.11).
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terms: emergency
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45match
MAI-146 - Public education on first responder interventions
The Home Office should consider the introduction of a public education programme to educate the public in first responder interventions.
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MAI-130 - Public Access Trauma kit availability
The Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care should consider how to ensure Public Access Trauma kits are available in all locations where they are most likely to be needed.
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MAI-16 - BTP coordination with Home Office police services
British Transport Police should work with the Home Office police services with which it shares policing responsibilities at or for a particular location: a. to agree which police service has primacy in the event of a Major Incident; b. to put in place appropriate plans to make clear the responsibilities of each police service in the event of...
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92 - Weekly notification of standby vessel locations
The owners of standby vessels should be required to notify the regulatory body weekly as to the locations and functions of their vessels in the ensuing week. A copy of such notification should also be given to the DoT (para 20.54).
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MAI-169 - Review Operation Plato guidance
Those organisations should consider what changes need to be made to the Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters Operation Plato guidance in order to achieve those aims.
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MAI-168 - Review Major Incident plans for joint working
Those organisations should consider what changes need to be made to Major Incident plans in order to achieve those aims.
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MAI-150 - Police notice of significant pre-planned events
The Home Office, the College of Policing and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services should develop a system for ensuring that the duty command structure in each police service has notice of any significant pre-planned event, such as a major concert or sports match, taking place within the police service area.
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MAI-142 - Compel LRF attendance from Category 1 and 2 responders
The Home Office should consider empowering the leadership of local resilience forums to compel the attendance of a senior representative of its Category 1 and Category 2 responders at all local resilience forum meetings. Inspections by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services should include an analysis of a service's engagement with its local resilience...
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MAI-134 - Fire service notice of significant pre-planned events
The Home Office, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, and the Fire Service College should develop a system for ensuring that the duty command structure in each fire and rescue service has notice of any significant pre-planned event, such as a major concert or sports match, taking place within the fire and rescue service...
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MAI-129 - Threshold for Ambulance Liaison Officer at events
The Home Office and the Department of Health and Social Care should consider how the threshold for a requirement that an Ambulance Liaison Officer be present at an event is to be identified.
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MAI-64 - Create centralised NaCTSO training library
NaCTSO should create a centralised library of training materials.
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MAI-41 - Include NWAS capabilities in GMP Major Incident Plan
Greater Manchester Police's Major Incident Plan should be reviewed to ensure that it includes clear guidance on the capabilities of North West Ambulance Service, including its Hazardous Area Response Team, Ambulance Intervention Team and Special Operations Response Team, as well as on the importance of joint working.
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MAI-40 - Include GMFRS capabilities in GMP Major Incident Plan
Greater Manchester Police's Major Incident Plan should be reviewed to ensure that it includes clear guidance on the capabilities of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, including its Specialist Response Team, as well as on the importance of joint working.
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MAI-39 - Single consolidated GMP Operation Plato plan
Greater Manchester Police should review its Operation Plato plans to ensure that there is only a single plan to which all can work and that this plan gives clear and consistent guidance on how to respond to an Operation Plato incident.
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MAI-37 - Ensure GMP role cards are accessible
Greater Manchester Police should ensure that its role cards are always immediately accessible to the officers who are to perform those roles.
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MAI-36 - Regular expert review of GMP Major Incident plans
Greater Manchester Police should ensure that its plans for responding to a Major Incident, including a terrorist incident, are reviewed regularly by those with the appropriate skills and experience to make meaningful improvements to each plan. This must include a regular review of the Operation Plato plan, which must include obtaining the views of those with experience of...
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MAI-34 - Review GMFRS information sharing during incidents
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service should review its guidance and policies on how it receives and passes on information during a Major Incident. It is important that, for any update given, it is established when the last time the person receiving the update was provided with information, to ensure that they are completely up to date.
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MAI-27 - Review terrorist attack notification procedures
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review the procedures by which it is notified of a terrorist attack to ensure that all police services know that this is an early priority.
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MAI-24 - Review combined vs separate Gold/Silver Control Rooms
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and the College of Policing should review the advantages and disadvantages of a combined Silver and Gold Control Room as opposed to separate rooms, and issue guidance for all police services on best practice.
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MAI-22 - Unarmed officer training on Operation Plato
Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters and the College of Policing should ensure that all unarmed frontline police officers receive training in what Operation Plato is and what will be expected of them following such a declaration. The training should include the importance of zoning, the identification of who can ordinarily work in different zones and the importance of joint...
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MAI-4 - Appoint control room intelligence collators (Fire)
All fire and rescue services should consider appointing a person within their control rooms who, in the event of a Major Incident, has the sole role of gathering and collating all available information and intelligence, and sharing it internally and externally to the extent appropriate.
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MAI-3 - Cross-border ambulance training and exercising
All ambulance service trusts should undertake training and exercising with neighbouring ambulance service trusts to ensure that cross-border support is efficient and effective.
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MAI-2 - Appoint control room intelligence collators (Ambulance)
All ambulance service trusts should consider appointing a person within their control rooms who, in the event of a Major Incident, has the sole role of gathering and collating all available information and intelligence, and sharing it internally and externally to the extent appropriate.
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48 - Safety briefings for passengers
Safety briefings or other appropriate means of communicating safety information to passengers should be adopted, including pointing out safety notices to passengers. ATOC should monitor the methods adopted by TOCs and issue guidance documents after a suitable trial period, including recommendations for different types of journey (para 11.13).
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22 - Contingency plans for media interest
All agencies involved in child protection work should have a contingency plan to enable them to make an effective and appropriate response to media interest to be mounted if occasion should require it and consideration should be given to a more open approach than may have been traditionally adopted (15.48).
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