Annexes

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Annex 1 Outline description of potential sub-groups active in recovery

Recovering from the Impacts of Emergencies

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Assessing the impacts of an emergency

Emergencies affect communities in a wide variety of ways. To understand the scope and scale of recovery, managers will need to understand who is affected and how the emergency has affected them.

Managing Recovery

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Recovery principles

Recovering from emergencies should be based on the following broad principles:

Introduction

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The Scottish Government’s approach to protecting the public in case of emergency is built around the concept of resilience. This is defined as the ability “at every relevant level to detect, prevent and, if necessary, to handle and recover from disruptive challenges”. Recovery is a fundamental element of resilience.

Recovering From Emergencies In Scotland

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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?

Appendixes

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Appendix 1: Information Sources and Guidance

Civil Emergencies - Disaster victim identification (UK DVI Guidance)

https://www.app.college.police.uk/app-content/civil-emergencies/disaster-victim-identification/

Interpol – DVI Guide

https://www.interpol.int/INTERPOL-expertise/Forensics/DVI-Pages/DVI-guide

Training & Exercising

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Training and exercising is essential to preparedness and, as such, is part of the normal business of responder organisations.

Legislation and Documentation

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Derogation of Legislation

In the most severe extensive mass fatalities emergencies, including the reasonable worst case planning assumptions for an influenza pandemic, it may be unrealistic to expect normal compliance with some aspects of legislation such as:

Intensive Emergencies - Requiring Criminal or Other Investigations

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In contrast with emergencies such as a pandemic, where the cause of death would in most cases be known, some emergencies resulting in mass fatalities require careful investigation to establish the circumstances of the deaths. In emergencies where criminality, hostility or negligence is suspected, legal requirements will greatly affect the way in which fatalities are managed. This section of the guidance sets out the response to mass fatalities emergencies of this sort, from the time when bodies are removed from the incident scene to when they are cremated or buried.

Extensive Emergencies - Requiring Little or No Forensic Pathology

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This section is concerned with deaths in which criminal and forensic investigations play little or no part. The most extreme emergency of this type would probably be a pandemic such as the influenza pandemic for which Category 1 responders have been asked to prepare. Other emergencies requiring only limited post mortem forensic work would be those where sufficient evidence had already been collected or where the investigation focused on non-human aspects of the incident, e.g. natural disaster.