Site Clearance: A Collaboration across Emergency Planning

Rebecca Pritchett

Rebecca.Pritchett@wyreforestdc.gov.uk

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Collaborating Partners

Guidance Authors

Gill McManus (DCLG)

Gill.McManus@communities.gsi.gov.uk

Rob Willis (DCLG)

Rob.Willis@communities.gsi.gov.uk

Rebecca Pritchett

Rebecca.pritchett@wyreforestdc.gov.uk

What is Site Clearance?

• ‘the process of removing rubble, debris and in some cases other materials which have been deposited due to an incident or event making an area unsafe or unusable’.

Response or Recovery?

An overarching process which can involve a range of requirements or activities: •Removal of structures or rubble in order to rescue trapped victims •Facilitation of the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) process •Demolition and clearance of damaged or dangerous structures •In some circumstances site clearance can involve the decontamination of structures and debris

• Localised structural collapse with up to 10,000 tonnes of possibly contaminated debris and up to 2,000 people trapped.

• Non-urban areas this is scaled back by one third (6,700 tonnes and up to 1350 people trapped).

National Resilience Planning Assumptions

Approach to Planning • Should be developed in a multi-agency

environment at local resilience forum (LRF) level.

• National Capabilities Survey Results:

– Community Risk Register

– Contactor conflict

– Mutual Aid

– Specialists- GDS & PHE

Objectives

Rescue of trapped and injured persons;

Recovery of fatalities and/or human remains;

Criminal and other investigations;

Recovery of personal and other items of value;

Safe removal and disposal of rubble and other debris;

Decontamination of rubble and debris and returning the area to an agreed level of safety

Ensuring environmental impacts from site clearance are appropriately controlled.

Facilitating the recovery process; to restore to a new normal

Maintaining, so far as is practicable, normal services at an appropriate level.

Independencies

• Integration into existing Command & Control

• Dovetail established plans & advice:

– Mass Fatalities

– Decontamination

– GDS

– PHE Recovery handbooks

TCG/SCG RCG

Site Clearance Cell

Thank you for Listening

Any Questions?

Gill McManus (DCLG)

Gill.McManus@communities.gsi.gov.uk

Rob Willis (DCLG)

Rob.Willis@communities.gsi.gov.uk

Rebecca Pritchett

Rebecca.pritchett@wyreforestdc.gov.uk