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Emergency
Why resilience means survival
"Disaster planning is an illusion unless it is based on valid
assumptions about human behaviour; incorporates an inter-organisational
perspective, is tied to resources and is known and accepted by the
participants". |
| Dr
Erik Auf der Hiede 1989 |
For client feedback
examples, please go to Track Record. For further
information please Contact Us at any time.
| Audit and benchmark your emergency
arrangements with EMPIRE |
EMPIRE (Emergency
Management Performance Indicators and Risk Evaluation) benchmarking
system
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Developed for the Health and Safety Executive by OCTO and Cranfield University |
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Unique feature - standards set, and continue to be set, by
industry participants |
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Consistent, Comprehensive, Cost effective,
Confidential |
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Typically five days duration with two days on-site.
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Three primary
outputs:
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strengths and weaknesses defined, with recommendations for
further development |
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anonymous user league table across extensive range of
topics |
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cost-benefit appraisal of development plans. |
Contact Us for details of EMPIRE
benchmarking and audit system
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| Plan
effective and compliant emergency response and civil protection |
| Comprehensive service, from single-issue contingency advice to
group-wide emergency management systems and national level capacity building.
Site operators, regulators and government departments have adopted our systems,
they are robust, practical and proven in action. |
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Group emergency organisation for a major petrochemical
operator |
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Group emergency organisation for a major petrochemical
operator |
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Integrated major incident plans for a nuclear
operator |
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Offshore response plans for an oil and gas producer |
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Civil protection arrangements for a government body |
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Capacity building for improved resilience to complex
emergencies. |
The
processes we employ stand alone or may be integrated seamlessly with existing
preparedness arrangements.
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| Select people and assess individual
performance |
Sensitive and perceptive service to
identify the right people for command roles in high-risk operations. Conducted
by command-seasoned professionals.
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Personnel selection services to major hazard
operators |
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Work with OCTO's own highly respected
competence assurance programme and with existing industry and service
standards |
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Extensive application in the nuclear industry and across oil
and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacture |
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Sensitive to client's cultural, political and ethnic
requirements. |
Contact Us for
details of OCTO Selection Events |
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| Train and exercise your people
realistically |
OCTO has been
working with clients to establish exact training requirements and develop
practical, cost effective solutions since 1991. Our capacity ranges from
one-hour executive briefings to group-wide competency standards and regulator
demonstration exercises - supported by management tools such as
OCTAVE
Examples of
training packages available for public and private sectors
include:
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Senior Executives emergency response (please see also Crisis
Management) |
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Tactical command and control, for emergency control centre
teams |
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Operational command and control, for incident command post
teams |
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Casualty clearance and management, for on-site response
teams |
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Emergency planning for practitioners, for SHE & Q
managers |
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Employee induction and awareness packages, for the
workforce |
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Examples of tailoring and delivering client training includes:
major nuclear installations, top tier COMAH sites,
utility sites, Ministry of Defence installations, offshore installations;
grass-roots development programmes.
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The development of realistic scenarios
and delivery of quality exercises is a science OCTO has
mastered, having delivered literally thousands of exercises from a low-profile
walk through to the testing of national major incident plans. |
Contact Us for
details of OCTO Training and Exercising |
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| Design your emergency
facilities |
| From full command centre specification
to advice and provision of forward control point equipment, OCTO advise on the design of emergency response facilities,
hardware and equipment. |
See also Products. |
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| Demonstrate your capability with OCTAVE |
Total Emergency Exercise Management in
One Simple Package!
Use OCTAVE
to:
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Optimise the benefits from your emergency exercise
programme |
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Generate exercise assessment sheets |
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Assess preparedness and competence using built-in competence
assurance framework |
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Effortlessly track performance of individuals, hardware,
procedures |
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Demonstrate compliance with regulations. |
Contact Us for details of OCTAVE
- See also Products
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| Research & Development |
In OCTO we aim to
be involved in the forefront of emergency management good practice. We commit
significant in-house resource to research and development and in turn provide
this service to clients who have specific emergency management issues. We have
a broad experience conducting research and development projects to address
client needs. Our existing knowledge of emergency management is supported by
links to other practitioners and academia. Examples
include:
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Research project dealing with emergency management competency
standards for a government body |
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Research and development project dealing with the measurement
of emergency management regulatory compliance for a regulator |
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Research and development project dealing with a method for
controlling on-site major emergencies in an extremely complex and high-risk
industrial operation. |
We have a reputation for first class
project management and can provide emergency management specialists with
exceptional project management capabilities including registered PRINCE 2
practitioners and Members of the Association for Project
Management.
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Information for downloads of research project reports. |
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