Evolution in Emergency Preparedness
and Response
Unified Command
International Conference on Global Emergency Preparedness and Response,
Vienna 19th to 23rd October 2015
Presented by Mark Neate, Director Security and Resilience Sellafield Ltd
Presentation Structure
• Why Unified Command
– Enable the business
– Threat evolution
– Learning from Experience
• What is it
• How to implement it
– Physical
– People
• Embed as Business as Usual
• Q&A
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10,000 people on average
day
Covers 6km² with 1300+
buildings:
- Nuclear inventory
- Chemical inventory
- Requirements for securing
inventories
- Ageing facilities
- Numerous chimneys
- Complex interconnected
plants
Reprocess fuel & store waste
Retrievals of historical waste
started
Population approx. 6,500
(within 6km)
The Sellafield challenge
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Strategic Change Agenda
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Threat and Risk Evolution
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Learning from Experience
Cumbria Floods – Nov 2009
‘Familiarity between the
responding agencies within
the Cumbria Resilience Forum
was an important bedrock
upon which lives were saved
and an even more serious
disaster averted’
London Bombings – July 2005
(With respect to recommendations) ‘they're about
further developing partnership working, and further
developing the response that has to be put in place,
not only by the three emergency services but also
by Transport for London’
What is it ?
Unified Command is an authority structure
that enables Sellafield Ltd (as the Site Duty
Holder), responding institutions and agencies
with different legal and functional
responsibilities to coordinate, plan, and interact
effectively thus ensuring that respective
capabilities can be brought to bear decisively
to achieve a decisive outcome in a crisis or
emergency response
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How to implement it
The overall aim of our arrangements is to
deliver timely and effective decision-
making in an emergency situation
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Command Facilities
Embed into Business As Usual
• Success will be measured by
– Consistency in performance (training, exercise and events)
– Direction of travel requires cultural adjustment and financial
investment
• Key enablers remain
– UK Government
– Our regulators
– Our senior management
– Our external agency partners
– Our workforce
– Our local community
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Questions ?
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