Local Community Emergency Volunteers

[K9medic]

Ok I have just been conned by one of my Neighbours / Boss / member of the local Parish Council (ok it’s a small area and every one has to wear multiple hats).

Part of his Parish Council duties has been setting up a Community Emergency Volunteer group, at the moment it’s a rather select group, i.e. just him and me.

Our first task is drawing up a Parish risk assessment (based on local knowledge and the County Council resiliency / risk assessment).

If you have ever worked with risk assessments before the format is just giving a numerical value to a Hazard (potential to cause harm or damage) and the Risk (the chance of it happening) x the Severity (how bad / duration).

So as I tend to use a 5 x 5 grid for my risk assessments, I thought I would tap into the group mind for opinions on “duration”. What is your opinion on the following format?

1. 24 hours
2. 72 hours
3. 7 days
4. 3 weeks
5. 3 months

Remember this is for local (ish) hazards affecting our community. The possibility ranges from a house fire, bad weather, train wreck to pandemic.

Thoughts?

Speak to the County resilience team, they will have tools for this.

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This. There will be performed available. Try not to put yourself in a position where you could be seen to be -almost wrongly, and inevitably by people who wouldn't put themselves forward for antthingthat involved helping others- wrong/liable for someone making a claim against you cos they would have done it different/better/other -even though you know they'd be nowhere to be seen in anything involving hard work. Bitter experience you say? Oh, yes-

WHY do my strike throughs never seembto work? Grrr!
Anyway, you get the gist.

This will already have been done by your unitary authority.

Crack on with your own, though. I'd love to see the parish budget for flood defences, pandemics and shortages. About ten bob?

Theres a budget, nobody told me there was a budget.

If its anything like the first responce group (strangly same two people) then its our own kit.

You need two dashes to make strike throughs with no gaps

I am wondering if any of the younger posters are imagining 10 people called Robert....

Before getting stuck into Risk Assessments, and this is another reason to speak to the County team before going any further, you need to have an idea of the scope of the Parish CEV Group response. If the purpose of the RA is to determine a pre-pack of actions/responses, then it's not exactly like a H&S RA. It's probably closer to a FMEA if you're familiar with those.

On a practical level, you're identifying the range of incidents that could occur and putting together a pack of resources and actions to address them - most of this will be a list of contact details of people in the village with skills/resources, and outside agencies that can deal with things.

It could be a fun project, but I don't envy you the intra-village politics that will inevitably creep in!

I have ran into FMEA in the past, because i wear the H&S hat for a private ambulance company i was volunteered to write the Business Continuity policy.

Like the cev stuff i really dont mind as it opens a few doors to my prepping mentality without giving to much away.

Politics in the village can be, shall we say intresting? But is the two of us tend to patch people up before the blue light taxi gets here we sort of get left out of it.

If anyone is intrested here is a link to the CEV lot. Its free and there have a few intresting down loads.

www.communitiesprepared.org.uk/