Emergency Planning - Networking

Welcome.  Many useful web pages re:

A) Natural Disasters

B) Working Together

C) Local Resilience Forums

Emergency planning and response is a highly complex subject that defies encapsulation as there are so many variables and uncertainties. Yet it is by studying the outcomes of incidents around the world, that we learn a little more how to train and prepare more appropriately.

The following web pages and articles introduce us to agencies involved, resources that are being utilised and debate about future needs.

A) Web pages that pertain to natural disasters.

• Weather Watch  http://www.met-office.gov.uk/weather/europe/uk/warnings.html
  
• Flood Watch http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/floodwarning/
  
• Pandemic Flu http://www.dh.gov.uk/PandemicFlu/fs/en
  
• Earthquakes: Melton Mowbray October 2001 EMS Leve5 l ( Affecting Nottinghamshire). http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/macroseismics/meltonmowbray_macro.htm
  

B) Web pages to do with agencies working together  re emergency situations 

• What to do in an emergency http://www.pfe.gov.uk/you/index.shtm

• Useful Websites

   

  Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Local Resilience Forum             www.nottsprepared.gov.uk

   

  Department of Health                                                                www.dh.gov.uk

  Nottingham City Council                                                         http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/

  Nottinghamshire Police                                                             www.nottinghamshire.police.uk

  East Midlands Ambulance  Service                                           www.emas.nhs.uk

  Nottingham Fire and Rescue                                                     www.notts-fire.gov.uk

  British Transport Police                                                             www.btp.police.uk

  Environment Agency                                         www.environment-agency.gov.uk/regions/midlands

  BBC Nottingham                                                                      www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham

  Vocal                                                                                       www.vocal.uk.com

  Government Office for the East Midlands                                  www.goem.gov.uk

  Nottingham City Transport                                                        www.nctx.co.uk

  Enviroment Agency                                           www.environment-agency.gov.uk/regions/midlands

  Nottingham Express Transit                                                      www.nottinghamexpresstransit.com

  Home Office                                                                             www.homeoffice.gov.uk

  Dept for Co0mmunities  and Local Govt                       www.communities.gov.uk/fireandresilience

  Emergency Planning College                                                     www.epcollege.gov.uk

  Civil Contingencies Secretariat                                                  http://www.ukresilience.info/

• Home Office advice in an emergency                  http://www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk/

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C) Local Resilience Forums ( What we and our surrounding counties are doing)

• Lincolnshire

http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/registration/section.asp?catId=9183

• Nottinghamshire

http://www.nottsprepared.gov.uk/

• Leicestershire and Rutland http://www.localresilienceforum.org.uk/

• Derbyshire http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/community/emergency_planning/lrf/

• Northamptonshire http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Safety/EP/liaison.htm

• Overall/ Government

http://www.gos.gov.uk/goem/preparing/preparedness/emlrf/?a=42496

This is under construction.