Dealing with disaster

摘要

Emergency planning arrangements play a crucial role in the mitigation of major accidents but there is growing concern about Lawyer Corinne Atkins asks the experts what are the their adequacy health and safety risks. Emergency planning has recently taken centre stage because the nature and scale of threats nave recently played havoc with our common assumptions about risk. Much has been done to strengthen our civil defence capabilities but, despite all the reforming zeal, alarm bells have been ringing about the state of the country's preparedness to respond to incidents. Whether we refer to large scale natural disasters or human-induced phenomenon they all need careful consideration. How to deal with an emergency should be pant of day-to-day business and, indeed, it is something to which the blue light services respond to in the normal course of their business. While some emergencies require the attendance of a single agency or authority many require a combination of police, fire, ambulance, and local authority services.