Emergency Plan - Fylde Borough Council

Emergency Plan February 2007
2..2.2 Out of Working hours
New Fylde Housing (through Tunstall Communications) will immediately inform:-
1. The Executive Manager Consumer Wellbeing & Protection.
2. The Chief Executive or Deputy Chief Executive.
3. In the event that none of the above can be contacted, the appropriate Emergency
Response Officer (bearing in mind the nature of the emergency) or one of the
Executive Managers.
For all out of hours contact numbers for the appropriate Emergency Response Officer see
Quick Guide II at page (iii) of this plan and for the Emergency Management Team EMT and
other key personnel, see QuickGuide III at page (iv).
The officer receiving the notification (normally the Executive Manager Consumer Wellbeing &
Protection /Chief Executive/ Deputy Chief Executive) must then call the County Emergency
Planning Duty Officer (see Appendix 1 for contact details), if they have not initiated the call, to
advise them of the situation and, if necessary, enable their call-out procedure to be initiated.
The officer receiving the notification will inform the appropriate Emergency Response Officer
(if relevant) and (unless they are the Chief Executive or Deputy Chief Executive) contact the
Chief Executive or Deputy Chief Executive.
2.3 Circumstances which may give rise to Activation of the Emergency Plan
Members of the Council’s Management Team and their senior officers deal with a wide range
of “emergencies” as part of their normal operations. These include routine and relatively minor
incidents, such as a tree blown across the road, which can be dealt with within normal
resources or can otherwise be resolved by local action involving a limited number of staff and
or agencies. They may also include more serious incidents that necessitate a larger workforce
than the normal emergency call-out, for example, wind or flooding damage to a large number
of properties.
Activation of this plan is, therefore, only likely to arise as a result of an incident in the
community arising with or without warning, threatening or causing death, injury or serious
disruption to a significant number of people, property or the environment, in excess of that
which can be dealt with by the public services operating under normal conditions.
2.4 Declaration of an Emergency
Whilst the normal operational response to an emergency may already be underway, an
emergency will only officially be declared by the Chief Executive (or nominated Deputy). In the
context of this plan, in the absence of the Chief Executive, “Nominated Deputy” must be
construed as including either the Deputy Chief Executive or, if he is not available, the person
receiving the notification referred to at 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 above.
The Chief Executive (or nominated Deputy) is responsible for determining whether an
emergency has occurred or is about to occur which makes it necessary or desirable for the
Council to perform its functions for the purpose of dealing with the incident.
Once the Chief Executive (or nominated Deputy) has been informed of the incident he will
make arrangements to consult with relevant officers to determine if an emergency has
occurred. This will depend upon the nature of the emergency, but is likely to include the
Consumer Wellbeing & Protection Executive Manager. The Chief Executive (or nominated
Deputy) will use the criteria in the definition of emergency at Section 1.5 of this document.
Once the Chief Executive (or nominated Deputy) has confirmed that an emergency has
occurred or is about to occur which makes it necessary or desirable for the Council to perform
functions in connection with the incident, the Chief Executive (or nominated Deputy) will,
without delay, declare a major emergency and invoke the emergency plan.
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