Section B

Incident Response Planning Issues

Focus; Facility Managers- Property owners-Employers- IRT

Foreword

This module provides Strategic guidance to Incident Response Teams or duty holders in defending buildings and protecting occupants. The generic information is utilised in conjunction with site specific or business survival plans generally. The duty holder is shown how to plan and respond to risk and hazards, controls or mitigation from various disaster scenarios assessed from horizon scanning. Planning for defence and reaction is the theme and the syllabus covers both engineering controls and the development of IRT (Incident Response Teams). Although the focus is on terrorist CBR (chemical biological radiological) events, building defence and occupant safety, the general module will provide the delegate with risk reduction and mitigation information & techniques for disaster defence and preparedness.

1) Health & safety Legislation

a) Overview

b) H&SW 74 MHSW 99 CAWR2002

c) Specific responsibilities

d) Necessity

 

2) Responsibilities

a) Duty of care

i) Tenants

ii) Employees

iii) Visitors

 

3) IRT Objectives

a) Prevent or control hazards or damage

b) Reduce the risk

c) Control the event

d) Mitigate

e) Protect colleagues/occupants

 

 

4) Selecting IRT Teams

a) Awareness

i) Important & Significant duties

ii) Specific role

b) Physical condition

i) medical

c) Reliability & availability

d) Training

i) PPE

(i) Types and limitations

(ii) Suitability

(iii) Don & Doffing

(iv) Personal decontamination

 

ii) Equipment

(i) Effective Use

e) Safety

i) Personal

ii) Others

 

5) Equipment Requirement

a) Assessment

b) Type and suitability

i) PPE

ii) Air Filtration devices

iii) Blanking materials

iv) Sealing materials

v) Communication equipment

c) Effectiveness

d) Budget

 

6) Dynamic Assessments

a) Training and roll play

b) Shortfalls and remediation protocol

c) Rolling Risks

d) Updating plans and response issues

e) Communication

f) Education

 

7) Strategic Planning

a) Role identification

b) Task definition

c) Safety

d) Route to completion

e) Method

 

8) Incident Response Team Actions

a) Security

i) Need to Know only

ii) Internal event procedures

iii) External event procedures

iv) Unified approach

 

b) Response

i) Plan location

ii) Equipment location

iii) Accessibility issues

iv) Route

c) Timing

i) Speed

ii) Pear shape procedures

iii) Triage

d) Duties

i) Known and rehearsed

ii) Pear shape procedures

 

9) Method Statements

a) Task identification

i) Description & method

b) Training

c) Nominated persons

d) Risk assessment undertaken

e) Risks controlled or reduced

 

 

f) Risk & Hazard assessments

i) Standard

ii) Dynamic

iii) Rolling

g) COSHH awareness

 

h) Damage Inspection Techniques

i) Fire

ii) Water

iii) Smoke

iv) CBR

v) Support Issues

 

10) Plan Parameters & Input

a) Test

b) Audit

c) Review

d) Updates

 

11) Terrorism CBR Specific

a) Generic or specific planning

b) Number of plans required

c) Storage and dissemination

d) Activation and authority

e) Speed & urgency

f) Budget

g) Test

h) Audit

i) Review

 

 

12) Soft Engineering

a) Centralised controls

b) Access to controls

c) Authority to activate

 

 

13) Assessment of Building controls

a) Ventilation

i) Ductwork

ii) AHU

iii) Temperature

iv) Controls

b) Stack effect

c) Laminar & turbulent air flow

d) Lifts & Control factors

e) Building leakage

 

f) Plan invocation

i) accessibility

ii) authority

iii) override facility or possibility

 

14) Controls

a) Zoning

i) Follow site specific plans

(i) Module G

ii) Improvisation

 

15) Multi Tenancy Problems

a) Counter response

b) Los of component

c) Invasion

 

 

16) Communications

a) Warning Notification procedures

i) Covert

ii) Overt

b) ACOL

c) Loss of IT & Telephones

d) Inter house

 

17) Evacuation

a) Raising alarm

b) Routes out

c) Guidance & Assistance

d) Primary assembly points

e) Secondary assembly point

i) Reasoning

ii) No assembly

f) Incident Response Team

i) Notification

ii) Assessments

iii) Actions

iv) Evacuation

g) Secondary devices

 

18) Movement to Evacuation

a) Safe movement procedures

b) Controls

c) Security issues

d) Trespassers

 

19) Resilience Planning

a) Storage and accessibility of resources

b) Accessibility & condition

c) Movement of stock to enclosure

 

20) Shelter in place

a) Raising alarm

b) Direction route

c) Management & security

 

 

21) Fire & Explosion events

a) Defence and mitigation

b) Contamination assessment

c) Hazards and risk

 

22) Natural Disaster

i) Flooding

ii) Prevention or Control

iii) Risk management

iv) Mitigating controls

v) Health issues

23) Asbestos

a) Typical problems

i) Fire & flood events

ii) Explosion

iii) Contractor actions

iv) Awareness

(i) Legal requirements Reg 4 MAWR

(ii) Types of Survey

(iii) Limitations

(iv) Duties

 

24) The disaster scene and delay

a Consequences

b Primary damage

c Secondary damage

d Mitigation