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ABRIDGED - Medway Council Off-site Emergency Plan – National Grid Grain LNG Ltd. • A Tactical Coordinating Group would be established at Medway Police Station to implement strategies as determined by the Strategic Group. • Operational Group(s) will be established at the scene, with Kent Fire and Rescue taking the lead. Medway Council will ensure appropriate representation at the Strategic, Tactical and Operational Commands, as well as establishing it’s own Gold and Silver Groups, which will address Medway Council specific issues. 10.3 Multi-Agency Response Structure including Scientific, Technical & Advisory Cell (STAC) MULTI-AGENCY STRATEGIC Strategic Coordination Group (SCG) Police HQ Maidstone Manage the Multi-Agency response at a Strategic decision making level Chair: Police Commander Liaison Officer: Chief Executive, Director RC&C, AD Frontline Services Staff Officer: EP Officer MULTI-AGENCY RESPONSE STRUCTURE RECOVERY STRUCUTRE MEDWAY COUNCIL SILVER Medway Silver Emergency Coordination Team (ECT) Medway Emergency Centre Implement strategies to address a wide range of Medway Council issues relating to specific aspects of the emergency Chair: Director RCC / AD Frontline Services / AD Adult Social Care Operations Manager: AD or Service Manager Emergency Centre Manager Operations Team: Staff as appropriate Recovery Advisory Group (RAG) - Strategic Recovery Coordination Group (SRCG) for recovery phase Advise SGC of recovery issues and suggest membership of Strategic Recovery Coordination Group. Lead recovery phase following formal hand-over Chair: Medway AD Frontline Services / Head Safer Communities / Head Highways “Recovery Manager” MULTI-AGENCY TACTICAL Tactical Coordination Group (TCG) Medway Police Station or Local Authority Emergency centre Implement actions from SCG at a tactical level Chair: Police Liaison Officer: Medway AD Frontline Services / Head Safer Communities / Head Highways Staff Officer: EP Officer MEDWAY COUNCIL GOLD Medway Gold Management Team Medway Offices Determine Medway’s response strategies. Ensure a joined-up approach across Directorates. To ensure Business Continuity Plans are implemented as per the Corporate Recovery Plan Chair: Chief Executive, Nominated Director Members: Lead Director, Directors and Ads as per Corporate Recovery Plan MEDWAY COUNCIL BRONZE Medway Bronze Operational Teams Site / Scene Perform duties as determined by ECT on the ground Incident Liaison Officers Welfare Liaison Officers Transport Operators Building Control June 2011 Page 28 of 52 Medway Silver Business Continuity Team (BCT) Implement Medway Council’s Business Continuity strategies Chair: AD Housing and Corporate Service / AD Organisational Services / AD Customer First, Leisure, Culture, Democracy and Governance Operations Team: Staff as required Science and Technical Advisory Cell (STAC) To coordinate and provide specialist scientific and technical advice including on public health and the environment Chair: Appropriate specialist STAC is replaced by the Environment Group in a Shoreline Response Centre during an Oil Pollution Incident. Business and Economic Recovery Assess the economic implications for the affected area and provide assistance to enable businesses to resume trading Chair: AD Development, Economy and Transport / Economic Development and Social Regeneration Manager Communications (Media / PR) To formulate an overall communications strategy to ensure the public and media are fully informed and consulted Chair: Medway Media and Comms Manager Community Recovery Committee To reflect community concerns and assist with the Impact Assessment Chair: Assistant Director Communications Performance and Partnerships Environment & Infrastructure (Including clean up) Use expertise to give viable options for cleanup, repair and replacement Chair: AD Frontline Services / Head Waste Services Health and Welfare Coordinate the provision of a full-range of welfare and health services to those affected by the emergency Chair: AD Adult Social Care / AD Children’s Care
ABRIDGED - Medway Council Off-site Emergency Plan – National Grid Grain LNG Ltd. 10.4 Scientific, Technical & Advisory Cell (STAC) The STAC will be established by the Strategic Coordinating Group (SCG) with the following remit: ‘To ensure timely coordinated scientific and technical advice during the response to an emergency, local responders are invited to consider collectively through the relevant Local Resilience Forum (LRF), arrangements for establishing STAC to provide advice to the Strategic Coordinating Group (SGC) when required. They will also need to identify a designated STAC lead and alternatives who would coordinate the work of the STAC when activated…. The establishment of a STAC is likely to be particularly important where there may be significant wider health and environmental consequences involving chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear material. The STAC should bring together technical experts from those agencies involved in the response and who may provide scientific and technical advice to the Gold Commander. The purpose of the cell would be to ensure that, as far as possible, scientific or technical debate was contained within the cell so that SCG (and others involved in the response) received the best possible advice based on the available information in a timely, coordinated and understandable way….’ Cabinet Office guidance (April) 2007 10.5 Traffic Control - The nature of an incident at the National Grid Grain LNG terminal is such that, until the gas has an ignition source, it may not be seen and as the gas is odourless (until odour has been added) it is likely that there will not be a gas smell either. It is therefore important that organisations responding to the emergency are aware of the hazards and that people and vehicles do not enter the potential hazard area. Because the A228 is the only road servicing the industries and village of Grain, information to them of an off-site incident, actual or potential is important even though they are not within the direct hazard area. 10.6 In order to speed up the road closures National Grid Grain LNG have provided Road Closure barriers and roadside “bins” at previously arranged locations on the A228 in the Stoke / Grain area: The roadside bins contain: • Fixed signs (road closed) • Blank signs (for written instructions) • Cones • Slow signs • Left & Right Arrows • Roadwork lights • Sandbags/water filled units (to hold down signs) 10.7 Traffic Control – Stoke side of A228 –The police will set up traffic control points on the A228. This is to prevent the unauthorized entry by pedestrians and road June 2011 Page 29 of 52
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