MEDWAY COUNCIL COMAH OFF-SITE EMERGENCY PLAN ...

ABRIDGED - Medway Council Off-site Emergency Plan – National Grid Grain LNG Ltd.
Annex A – 5.1
OUTLINE RESPONSIBILITIES
SOUTH EAST COAST AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
1. Receive emergency calls from the emergency services or other sources.
2. Dispatch ambulance resources to the scene of the Major Incident.
3. Alert the appropriate listed hospitals of the possibility of a Major Incident.
4. Receive from the first ambulance response at the scene, confirmation of the
nature of the Major Incident.
5. As appropriate Stand Down or confirm a Major Incident exists with the
alerted hospitals.
6. Confirm with the appropriate hospital the requirement for a Mobile
Emergency Response Incident Team (MERIT) and arrange the provision of
ambulance vehicles for their transportation to the scene as necessary.
7. Provide a senior ambulance officer at the scene to act as ‘Ambulance
Incident Commander’.
8. Dispatch to the scene sufficient ambulance resources, Incident Support
Units (ISU) and, as appropriate, the ambulance Incident Control Vehicle
(ICV) to be located with the Police and Fire & Rescue Service.
9. Provide identifying accoutrements for the Medical Incident Commander
(MIC).
10. Establish communications from the ambulance Incident Control Vehicle to
the receiving hospitals and, if required to any officer deployed to the relevant
local authority Emergency Control Centre.
11. Liaise at scene with the Police and Fire & Rescue Service and any other
organisations involved.
12. Forward to the receiving hospitals any information obtained at the scene
relating to toxic or radiation hazards and possible contamination of
casualties.
13. Determine the evacuation priorities for casualties and the hospitals to which
they are to be sent. (In conjunction with the Medical Incident Commander, if
deployed).
14. Advise the receiving hospitals on the prevailing situation and the categories
and estimated times of arrival of casualties.
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