Emergency Planning

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Emergency Planning The Civil Contingencies
Act, 2004

• Nick Willasey
• Emergency Planning Officer
• Liverpool City Council
• IOSH Merseyside Branch
• 1st March 2005

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Government Arrangements

• Cabinet Office
• Civil Contingencies Secretariat
• Specific Civil Defence Grant
• Civil Defence Act, 1948
• Civil Defence (General Local Authority Functions)
  Regulations, 1993
• Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

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Kings Cross Underground Fire MV Braer Manchester
IRA Bomb Chernobyl Canary Wharf River
Thames - Marchioness Herald of Free
Enterprise Clapham Rail Crash Sea Empress
Oil Spill Lockerbie
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Schipol Air Crash Selby Rail Crash Towyn
Floods Piper Alpha Dunblane Winter
Storms 1987/1997 Grand National
1997 Paddington Hatfield Rail Crashes The 4
F words
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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• Introduced as a Bill on 7th January 2004
• Royal Assent - 18th November 2004
• Regulations Guidance - March 2005
• Implementation - May 2005
• CPA starts - October 2005

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• Part 1
• Local arrangements for civil protection
• Part 2
• Emergency Powers Legislation

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• A new definition of emergency which must
• threaten serious damage to human welfare
• threaten serious damage to the environment
• war or terrorism which threatens serious damage
  to security

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• For humans, an event or situation must involve
  only
• loss of human life
• human illness or injury
• homelessness
• damage to property
• disruption of a supply of money, food, water,
  energy or fuel
• disruption of a system of communication
• disruption of facilities for transport
• disruption of services relating to health

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• For the environment, an event or situation must
  involve only
• contamination of land, water or air with
  biological, chemical or radio-active matter, or
• disruption or destruction of plant life or animal
  life

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• CATEGORY 1 RESPONDERS
• Fire Rescue Service
• Police
• Local Authorities
• Ambulance Trusts
• Hospital Trusts (AE)
• NHS Foundation Trusts
• Primary Care Trusts
• Health Protection Agency
• Port Health Authorities
• Environment Agency
• Maritime Coastguard Agency

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• CATEGORY 2 RESPONDERS
• Electricity Utilities
• Gas Utilities
• Water and Sewerage Utilities
• Telephone providers
• Network Rail
• Train Operating Companies
• Airport Authorities
• Harbour and Port Authorities
• Highways Agency
• HSE

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• Category 1 Responders will have new statutory
  duties and powers to jointly or individually
• Risk Assessment - Community Risk Register
• Emergency Planning
• Informing warning
• Business Continuity Planning
• Co-operation Information sharing

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• Category 2 Responders will have lesser duties
• Co-operation Information sharing between
  themselves and with Category 1 Responders

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The Civil Contingencies Act will require Category
1 Responders to prevent, warn of, mitigate
effects of and recover from

• Major transport accidents
• Abnormal weather conditions - storms, flooding
• Chemical incidents - toxic plumes
• Disruption of essential services - Fires,
  Accidents, Fuel Shortages
• Hazardous substances washed ashore - incl. oil

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• Aircraft crashes
• Radiation incidents
• Major sporting events - evacuations
• Dangerous structures
• Acts of terrorism
• Health risks - infectious diseases, pandemics

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Types of emergency

• LOCAL EMERGENCY WITH NOTICE
• NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH NOTICE

• LOCAL EMERGECNY WITHOUT NOTICE
• NATIONAL
• EMERGENCY WITHOUT NOTICE

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• Part 2 - Emergency Powers
• Infrequent use
• Regional emergencies catered for
• Losing the Sovereign
• Triple lock assurance
• threat to human welfare, environment or security
• existing legislation insufficient or not quickly
  available
• proposed emergency powers must be proportionate

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• Part 2 - Emergency Powers
• In addition, emergency regulations cannot
• prohibit strikes or industrial action
• instigate military conscription
• alter any aspect of criminal proceedings
• be used to create new offences
• must be EU proof
• are open to challenge in the courts

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Civil Contingencies Act, 2004

• North West Regional Planning
• GONW Regional Resilience Team (RRT)
• GONW Regional Resilience Forum (RRF)
• 5x Local Resilience Forums (LRFs)
• County based LRF Sub groups

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Emergency Planning Liaison Flowchart
HM Government Civil Contingencies Secretariat
Central Government
Regional Resilience
Local Resilience
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