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Many of the former Scottish EmergencyPlanning Managers have renamed themselves as Resilience Managers, or have resilience in their department’s name. Resilience, to them, has the scope of organisation-wide risk management with the extra dimension of mitigating all the risks and operating the organisation so that it thrives.
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I am sure the emergency planners of Kensington and Chelsea had a compliant emergencyplan, but when it was used in the response to the Grenfell fire, it failed. We can then look at taking mitigation measures to make the most time-critical activities more resilient.
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