Emergency planning
Emergency planning is a key role that Thanet District Council
undertakes.
Emergencies happen every day somewhere to someone and it’s no
different at a Council level. The Council plans to deal with any
major emergency.
A major emergency is defined as:
- an incident that happens either with or without warning
- which causes or threatens death or injury
- damage to property or the area we live in
- or perhaps causes major disruption to the community to such an
extent that the Council cannot deal with it as part of its usual
operations.
To help deal with such emergencies, the Council works with a
range of other organisations, including:
- other councils in Kent
- the emergency services
- the Environment Agency
- utility operators, such as gas and electricity companies
- and the voluntary sector
to prepare plans to respond these incidents.
The Council has its own Major Emergency Plan, which covers a
range of eventualities that ensure that we can respond, whatever
the incident and wherever and whenever it occurs:
Section 1
- introduction and background
Section
2 - management, control and co-ordination
Section 3 -
activation and alerting
Section
4 - action
Section
5 - annexes
Usually our staff would continue to do their jobs, but perhaps
in different locations or on a larger scale. Because Thanet is a
coastal area and we have a busy harbour and port, there are
elements of this plan that are specific to our District,
including:
- a Coastal Oil Pollution Plan
- a Storm Tide Flood Plan
- an Emergency Plan for the Port of Ramsgate & Royal
Harbour
To ensure that these plans work effectively, the Council
regularly carries out training exercises with its own staff and our
partner organisations.
Kent Resilience Forum
Thanet District Council is a member of the Kent Resilience
Forum, which has carried out an assessment of the risks facing the
county. The results of this can be found in the
Kent Community Risk Register