St. Albans City and District Council has its own emergency plan that is flexible enough to deal with a variety of emergencies as well as being involved in the development of site specific plans.
In summary, the council’s emergency plan outlines:
• How the council will respond to an emergency;
• Plan activation;
• Roles and responsibilities;
• Welfare;
• Communications;
• Incident control centre procedures
• Resources
• Reception centre information, and
• How the Council will recover from an incident.
The council also oversees the upkeep of local multi-agency plans for key sites.
Across Hertfordshire there are a range of event specific plans covering issues such as:
• Pandemic flu
• Aircraft accidents
• Mass fatalities
• Media and communication
• Flooding
• Care of people
• Recovery
St. Albans City and District Council Local Emergency Planning Forum
The St. Albans City and District Local Emergency Planning Forum is part of the countywide emergency planning partnership, Hertfordshire Resilience (see Hertfordshire Resilience page for more information). All districts/boroughs have a Local Emergency Planning Forum (LEPF).
The St. Albans City and District Local Emergency Planning Forum brings together local representatives of Hertfordshire Resilience agencies as well as significant local business and organisations. It exists to co-ordinate emergency planning issues and training at a local level, share good practice and experience and builds good working relationships across the district.
Risk Information
Emergency planning involves a number of activities, the first of which aims to identify the risks. This risk assessment phase is necessary in order to prioritise for the latter planning stage. Risk assessment data is used to create a risk profile for the county presented in the form of a Community Risk Register. This has been supplemented at a district/borough level by a local level risk assessment.
The Hertfordshire Community Risk Register has been published on the Hertfordshire County Council website. To ensure continuity the CRR will be stored and updated centrally.
Once the risks have been identified, planning can begin. Planning provides the response framework and is an ongoing process which requires constant development as risk assessments highlight new or changing threats, and lessons are learnt through exercise or experience.
Types of risk that are of interest to local emergency planners:
• Transport infrastructure i.e. road and rail
• Areas with large numbers of people such as town centres and shopping centres
• Severe weather such as storms, snow and flooding
• Key sites
Date of last review: 25 June 2009