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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