Emergency action plan
13 April 2012
At home ...
- Your home might lose access to power, water and the telephone. Store items you may need to use such as a torch, bottled water and ready-to-eat food.
- Keep a radio so you can listen to news bulletins. A wind-up radio is ideal because it will never run out of power.
- Have blankets and duvets to keep warm in case there is a power cut. In the event of a major emergency, go in, stay in, and tune into the radio or television.
At work ...
- Draw up contingency plans for an attack and practise office evacuations.
- Bomb shelters can be a good way of saving your employees' lives. If you identify a suitable part of the building to construct one, make sure its structure would survive a blast and has equipment to communicate with the outside world.
- If there is an attack, evacuate everybody immediately unless told not to by police.
- Prepare your building for flying glass. Install anti-blast curtains or fit anti-shatter film to windows.
- Consider setting up a second site you can evacuate to in order to keep your business working with a skeleton staff.
