Emergencies planning

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The emergency services are trained and equipped to respond to all kinds of emergencies.

But if an emergency is serious and affects many people, they will naturally be very busy. So you should be able to help yourself, and others, where you can.

In an emergency, you should call 999 and follow instructions. But there is a lot you can do now to prepare yourself, your home or your business for emergencies and disruptive events.

This section suggests some straightforward, common sense actions for householders, community groups and businesses that will stand you in good stead in a wide range of situations:

• Prepare an emergency pack
• Prepare an emergency plan
• Prepare for car journeys
• Check the community risk register
• Go in, Stay In, Tune In!
• Winter weather checklist
• Winter weather - useful links

This section contains more information about how to respond to specific types of emergency or incident:

• Air crash
• Bird flu
• Flooding
• Storms
• Terrorist incidents
• Toxic gas or radioactive cloud

Did you know that, every year, 1 in 5 businesses face a major disruption of service?

Business continuity management is a planning process that gives business the resilience to survive disruptive events.

The guide attached below will help you analyse the current position of your organisation and gives you some straightforward advice on how to be more resilient:

A guide to business continuity planning for businesses and voluntary organisations (pdf - 610Kb)

When an emergency occurs, the emergency services (Fire, Police, Ambulance or Coastguard) deal with it quickly and efficiently. Normally, councils don't get involved in such incidents.

But when a major emergency takes place that's beyond the capacity of the emergency services to deal with unaided, councils needs to activate plans to support the emergency services.

Every council service plans how to respond to a disaster as part of their normal operations. The Civil Contingencies Service provides these council services with specialist advice on emergency planning. The Civil Contingencies Service is a joint service operated by Renfrewshire Council, East Renfrewshire Council and Inverclyde Council.

Find out more

Our useful links page highlights several websites where you can get more information.

For more information or general advice, contact:

Civil Contingencies Service
Renfrewshire House
Cotton Street
Paisley
PA1 1WB

email: chiefexec@renfrewshire.gov.uk

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