Dealing with disaster - Softcover

Great Britain: Home Office

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0113411294 ISBN 13: 9780113411290

Publisher: Stationery Office Books, 1994

Synopsis

Foreword by the Home Secretary As we all must recognise, disasters can strike suddenly, unexpectedly and anywhere. Many agencies have a part in dealing with the disaster and its aftermath, and the effectiveness of the total response will depend on how well the emergency services, local authorities and central government have harmonised their preparations and exercised their arrangements and emergency procedures. I am particularly pleased to be able to recommend these guidelines to you for your careful attention. This second edition has been rewritten and it encapsulates a number of new initiatives and lessons learned from a wide range of incidents and exercises, both at home and overseas. I am grateful for the part played by the Civil Emergencies Adviser in drawing on advice and assistance from the emergency services, local authorities, voluntary organisations and elsewhere. I am most grateful for their interest and commitment. The guidance does not replace existing guidance for the individual emergency services and other agencies. However it does present best practice, and not responding to this guidance can fail those who are caught up in the incident. The key message is the need for all who are involved with the response to any disaster to be actively associated with planning that response. In this way those who are caught up in the trauma of the incident can be assured that they will be treated in the way that you or I would wish to be treated were a member of our own family to be tragically involved. I commend this guidance to you. Home Secretary

About this edition

• Publisher: Stationery Office Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0113411294
• ISBN 13: 9780113411290
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2