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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

National standards should be developed to ensure that emergency plans are functional and compatible with one another, and that they ensure the interoperability of emergency services and functions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

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An Old Threat Returns

Plan B Consulting

When I was the Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, I was called to the mail room to look at a suspicious envelope which had been X-rayed by mail staff, and seemingly contained a needle. Not all things sent in the post are designed to harm, sometimes they are just plain stupid.

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An Old Threat Returns

Plan B Consulting

When I was the Emergency Planning Manager at Anglian Water, I was called to the mail room to look at a suspicious envelope which had been X-rayed by mail staff, and seemingly contained a needle. Not all things sent in the post are designed to harm, sometimes they are just plain stupid.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

Wording of this kind is designed to defy the country's leading philosophers of logic, and let's remember that the Act is designed to tackle a major emergency–sorry, disaster. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete.