Conference Day Two: Wednesday 30th June 2010

08.30 Coffee & Registration

09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Chris Abbott
Chair
Emergency Planning Society Professional Working Group

Focus on Training

09.10 Nhs Resilience, Training And Emergency Preparedness

  • Challenges facing the NHS in preparing for emergencies
  • Level of NHS training preparedness for CBRN incident
  • Central training directives and region specific exercises

Dave Bull
Training Lead, Emergency Preparedness Division, HART
Department of Health

09.45 The Fire Service College – CBRN Major Incident Response Exercise

  • Outline of scenario and incident details
  • Successes and failures of the scenario – what issues were highlighted?
  • How can training be improved and what is the role of the Fire Service College within this?

Colin Flack
Technical Advisor
The Fire Service College

10.20 Networking Coffee Break

10.50 Training For The Unprecedented – How To Prepare For A CBR Attack

  • Reaction to easily available chemicals, different sources of radiation and white powders
  • Training for detection, response and decontamination
  • How should Blue Lights react? Victim response and minimising the effected area.

Dr Andy Oppenheimer
Independent CBRNE Analyst

11.25 Interactive Panel Session On Training

  • Ensuring that the training accurately reflects the threat and potential incidents
  • Issue of inter-agency cooperation within training
  • Assessing level of UK training preparedness for training

Hosted by Chris Abbott
Chair
Emergency Planning Society Professional Working Group

12.00 Networking Lunch

13.15 Focus On Disaster Victim Identification After A CBRN Incident

The RID Project – The safe recovery, identification and decontamination of contaminated facilities and the provision of safe systems for achieving this.

David Thrower
ACPO DVI Coordinator for Training and Exercises

Prof Guy Rutty
Head of East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit
University of Leicester

Philip Webster
Imaging Lead
Department of Health

14.45 Networking Coffee Break

Major Incident Focus and 2012 Olympics

15.10 Experience Of Blue Light Responders At Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010

  • Lessons learned regarding inter-agency coordination
  • Methodology for training
  • Major challenges faces

15.45 Department Of Health Perspective For Olympics 2012

  • DoH planning for 2012
  • Capability and preparedness
  • Issues and challenges

Russ Mansford
Olympics CBRN Lead, Emergency Preparedness Division, HART
Department of Health

16.20 Police Perspective – Olympics 2012

  • Police planning for the Olympics
  • Capability and preparedness
  • Issues and challenges

Chief Superintendent Alan King
Deputy OCU Commander & CBRN Coordinator
Metropolitan Police

16.55 Chairman’s Summary And Close Of Conference

Chris Abbott
Chair
Emergency Planning Society Professional Working Group

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