Considerations for senior managers

This section sets out considerations for senior managers.

If an emergency was to happen today:

• what part would you play in the Resilience Partnership’s arrangements for recovery?
• is your management team prepared to support you in your management role in recovery?
• are you fully prepared to lead the recovery activities of both your organisation and the multi-agency group if requested?
• have you trained and exercised for your personal role?
• are you confident that your organisation’s arrangements for preparation, response and recovery from crises and emergencies are auditable and will withstand scrutiny in the event of a public inquiry?
• can your organisation, alone, resolve the complexity associated with recovering from emergencies?

Does your organisation:

• endorse the principles of recovery?
• recognise the protracted nature of recovery following some emergencies?
• have a scheme of delegation that authorises managers to deploy resources and incur expenditure in recovery?
• have arrangements in place to allow rapid decision making following an emergency and, if so, for how long?
• provide for the welfare of staff who will deal with an emergency and its longer-term effects?
• have plans that allow for effective community engagement?
• have arrangements that provide an audit trail of resources deployed, when, why and by whom, to facilitate cost recovery?
• have effective mutual aid arrangements?