Emergency plan
Pages in Emergency plan
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Community risk register, types of emergencies and The Civil Contingencies Act
- 3. What is a major incident?
- 4. Who is involved in emergency response?
- 5. Phases of an incident
- 6. Response phases: Where? and What?
- 7. Welfare
- 8. Communication and media management
- 9. Response phase: How?
- 10. You are here: Staff welfare and finance
- 11. Recovery
- 12. Appendix
10. Staff welfare and finance
14. Staff welfare
14.1 Health and Safety
The nature of emergency situations is that the Council will generally need to respond quickly, but reasonable training and instruction will be given, and the health and safety of our staff and the public will remain our main priority.
Responding staff will be provided with food and beverages throughout an incident as necessary and any PPE required to keep safe and carry out their role.
14.2 Lone Working
It is important to adhere to lone working policies. The main consideration is to ensure that where staff are deployed and attend in person, they inform someone by telephone, where they are going and how long they will be. Staff should report back to someone when they have returned safely.
Full details of the Council’s lone worker policy can be found on the internal staff website, titled ‘Lone Working Policy’.
14.3 Brief and Debrief
All staff deployed in a response should undergo a brief to make them aware of the incident occurring prior to deployment and their role. This brief should include some information about the emergency.
On stand down of the plan all staff deployed in a response should undergo a debrief which may also include a psychological First Aid (PFA) session or be carried out separately. Applied Resilience are trained to assist in carrying out PFA sessions.
14.4 Post-Incident Report
A post incident/exercise report should be written and include recommendations for improvement to the emergency plan and procedures going forward.
This report should be sent to Applied Resilience who will then make changes to the Emergency Plan to best complement and ensure the recommendations that have been identified.
15. Finance
15.1 Responsibilities
The Finance Team is responsible for the following actions:
- Ensure accurate accounting of all expenditure incurred
- Administration of any scheme set up in response to an incident if established (for example, Bellwin)
- Make claims under the Bellwin Scheme, where appropriate, within one month of the incident. (See Appendix D)
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