Emergency Plan - Fylde Borough Council

Emergency Plan February 2007
1.1 Introduction to the Plan
The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 is designed to focus national attention to ensure that all
agencies do all that can be done to enhance national resilience.
This plan forms part of Fylde Borough Council’s resilience planning. It sets out the Council’s
peacetime civil emergency responsibilities and provides information on emergency
management and response procedures. It will enable the Council to respond effectively to
major civil emergencies (see 1.5 below for definition) that occur within or adjacent to the area
of responsibility of Fylde Borough Council (hereinafter referred to as the Council).
The plan concentrates mainly on the Council’s emergency planning arrangements, but also
incorporates sufficient information regarding the roles and responsibilities of the emergency
services and other organisations that may be expected to respond. This ensures that the
actions of the Council are integrated and co-ordinated with other responding agencies and
that the Council delivers an effective, timely and proportionate response.
The plan does not affect the normal day to day arrangements that exist between Council
officers and the emergency services for dealing with routine, service specific emergencies.
Whilst the document is intended to provide the essential and initial information likely to be
required by any person acting on behalf of the Council in response to a major incident, it may
also be used as guidance for serious incidents requiring a response from the Council, that are
not declared major incidents, to ensure that a structured approach is taken to such incidents.
1.2 Aim of Plan
The aim of this plan is to ensure that Fylde Borough Council can respond effectively and
flexibly to an emergency and continue to provide services to the Community within the
Integrated Emergency Management concept as laid down by Central Government.
1.3 Objectives of the Plan
The main objectives of the plan are to:-
• meet the Authority’s statutory obligations for Emergency Planning as detailed in
the Civil Contingencies Act 2004;
• define a major emergency and describe its key phases;
• set out the Council’s procedures for invoking this plan;
• describe the main functions of the organisations involved and in particular, the
key functions of the Council at the time of a major incident;
• state how the plan will be implemented and the response managed;
• detail the roles and responsibilities of the Council and its staff as well as the other
agencies involved;
• explain notification and call-out procedures for Council personnel;
• identify links and cross references to other agencies’ plans;
• describe the command, control, communications and co-ordination arrangements
that will be put in place in response to a major emergency;
• outline the assistance that may be obtained from the County Council and other
agencies;
• provide a directory of contacts for both council staff and other public, private and
voluntary organisations likely to respond to a major incident.
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