Blackstone's emergency planning, crisis, and disaster management.
Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis, and Disaster Management is a practical guide for those involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response. Primarily focused on the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, it has been developed from the highly regarded...
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | 2nd edition / |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. An Introduction to Emergency Planning
- Introduction to `Risk'
- The Emergency Planning Officer
- Personal Qualities and Attributes
- The EPO Image
- Who's Who in the Emergency Planning World?
- The Independent Emergency Planning Officer
- The Expert `Witness'
- Overview
- The Civil Contingencies Act 2004
- The Resilient Organisation
- Summary
- Conclusion
- 2. Plans and Exercising
- An Introduction
- Types of Plan
- The Emergency Planning Cycle
- Integrated Emergency Planning
- Planning Guidance
- Who Creates Plans?
- Multi-Agency Plans In Perspective
- Making Planning Decisions
- Emergency Plans Versus Business Continuity Plans
- Do We Need to Exercise?
- Summary
- Conclusion
- 3. Creating Your Plans
- Integrated `Internal' Planning
- Electronic or Hard Copy Plan?
- What Should be In the Plan?
- Plan Format
- Building the Plan
- Completing and Marketing the Plan
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Note continued: 4. Understanding the Emergency Response
- Planning Foundation
- Emergency and Recovery Phases
- Emergency Response Terminology
- The Emergency Response
- The Police
- Category 1 Responder
- Incident Scene Management
- General Initial Response
- Facilities and People that Support the Response
- Fire and Rescue Service
- Category 1 Responder
- Ambulance Service
- Category 1 Responder
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)
- Category 1 Responder
- Local Authority
- Category 1 Responder
- Support Agencies
- Managing Change in Emergency Response Organisations
- Summary
- Conclusion
- 5. Co-ordinating the Emergency Response
- Police Co-ordination
- Invoking and Using STO/GSB Effectively
- The Police Incident Officer
- Tactical Co-ordination Centre (TCC) and the Tactical Co-ordination Centre Co-ordinator
- Activating Management Levels
- Strategic Co-ordination Centre-SCC
- The Return to Normality
- Note continued: Area/Regional and National Co-ordination
- Lead Government Departments
- Managing Within the TCC and SCC/SCG
- Recording and Sharing Information
- Crisis Meetings
- Running Meetings
- Resourcing Police Co-ordination Centres (External Agencies)
- Criminal Liability
- The Incident Room
- Co-ordination
- Putting It All Together (A Practical Example)
- Summary
- Conclusion
- 6. Exercise Design
- General Principles
- The Basic Scenario
- Alms and Objectives
- Exercise Types
- Simulation Exercises
- Visualisation
- Making a Choice
- General Costs
- Cost Recovery
- Summary
- Conclusion
- 7. Exercise Management
- Who's Who In Exercise Management?
- Using the Input Script
- Staffing Schedules
- Controlled Play and Free Play Exercises
- Exercise Control
- Exercise Communications Network Overlay
- Time Line
- Compressing Time
- Exercise Order or Programme
- Players' Information Pack (PIP)
- Debrief Schedule
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Note continued: 8. Planning and Organising the Exercise
- Basic Preparation
- Planning Meetings
- Developing the Scenario-Exercise Mayflower
- Preparing Resource Boards
- Seminar Exercise
- Table Top Checklist
- Control Post Exercise Checklist
- Live Exercise Checklist
- Summary
- Conclusion
- 9. How to Run the Exercise
- The Seminar Exercise
- Table Top Exercise
- Control Post Exercise
- Live Exercise
- Summary
- Conclusion
- 10. Debriefing
- Effective Debriefing
- Debrief Types
- Debriefing an Exercise
- What Is Entailed In Each Form of Debrief?
- Running the Exercise Debrief
- Debriefing a Real Event
- Completing the Debrief Report
- Overall Action Monitoring
- Summary
- Conclusion.