Emergency

Emergency

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Why Failure Is Not An Option

"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

 

• Audit and benchmark your emergency arrangements with EMPIRE
• Plan effective and compliant emergency response and civil protection
• Select people and assess individual performance
• Train and exercise your people realistically
• Design your emergency facilities

 

Audit and benchmark your emergency arrangements with EMPIRE

OCTO's EMPIRE (Emergency Management Performance Indicators and Risk Evaluation) benchmarking system has many features:

• Developed for the Health and Safety Executive by OCTO and Cranfield University
• Unique feature - standards set, and continue to be set, by industry participants
• Consistent, comprehensive, cost effective and confidential
• Typically 5 days duration with 2 days on site

 

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:

• Group emergency organisation for a major petrochemical operator
• Integrated major incident plans for a nuclear operator
• Offshore response plans for an oil and gas producer
• Civil protection arrangements for a government body
• Capacity building for improved resilience to complex emergencies.

The processes we employ are stand-alone or may be integrated seamlessly with existing preparedness arrangements.

 

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 OCTO services include:

• Personnel selection services to major hazard operators
• Work with OCTO's own highly respected competence assurance programme and with existing industry and service standards
• Extensive application in the nuclear industry and across oil & gas, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacture
• Sensitive to client's cultural, political and ethnic requirements

 

Train and exercise your people realistically

OCTO has been working with clients to establish exact training requirements and develop practical, cost effective solutions.  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 or private sectors include:

• Senior executives emergency response
• Tactical command and control for emergency control centre teams
• Operational command and control for incident command post teams
• Casualty clearance and management for on site response team
• Emergency planning for practitioners for SHE&S managers
• Employee induction and awareness packages for the workforce

 

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.

 

For further information please Contact Us at any time.

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