severe weather incident team - Blaenau Gwent County Borough ...

Civil Contingencies Team / Emergency Planning Duty Officer• Distribution of weather warnings during office hours• Assessment of warnings received to determine whether further action is required.• Confirm known details with the emergency services and/or other externalorganisations• Ensure the Communications Team are aware of the situation and the EmergencyInformation Structure is implemented.• Ensure that steps are taken to provide any immediate services requested• If required, contact the Severe Weather Incident Team members (see Appendix 3) toadvise of the situation, and the activation level (standby / full activation)• Where appropriate, recommend to CMT / Senior Officers that the Severe WeatherPlan is activated, and the Severe Weather Incident team established• Setting up of the Emergency Centre for the Severe Weather Incident Team ifnecessary• Coordinate the Local Authority response to the incident (Severe Weather IncidentTeam) if Emergency Response Team has not been activated• Coordinate the operational deployment of staff to critical locations for snow clearance• Informing CMT, Emergency Services, Emergency Planning Liaison Officers,Emergency Planning Duty Officers, C2BG, Worcester Telecare and theCommunications Team that a Severe Weather Incident Team has been set up.• Ensure Elected Members are briefed as appropriate.• Liaison with Emergency services and voluntary sector• Co-ordination of voluntary agency(ies) and military support at the request of the ERT.When engagement has been established, the Civil Contingencies Team will handover the management of this support to the ERT.• Identification of, and consideration for those made vulnerable by the emergency• Liaison with other Local Authorities (if cross-border incident) / WAG• Consider the requirement for Mutual Aid, and notify CMT• Consider the criteria for activation of the Emergency Management Plan andestablishment of the ERT in consultation with the Chief Executive or appropriatesenior officer.• establish liaison with relevant Directorates and support the activation and operationof an ERT (where necessary)• Discharge roles and responsibilities as detailed in the Council’s EmergencyManagement Plan and individual Annexes of this plan.• Hold a debrief of the incident and write up incident report with recommendations13