This Code provides guidance for the formulation of a crisis management plan.  It covers guidance to assess and analyse the type of threats that may be faced and how to mitigate these threats by a combination of prevention and protection techniques. The resultant exposure to a crisis should then be covered by the crisis management plan encompassing preparation, response, recovery and testing.

This document is written to apply to most types of organisation, enforcing bodies, etc. and should be applied as deemed appropriate to the circumstances of the organisation.  In addition, due to the fact that this document does not rely on national codes, it can be applied internationally.

The dangers of “cheap and cheerful” Fire Risk Assessments

A personal perspective by Paul Bryant

Paul is the CEO of Kingfell plc Fire Engineering & Risk Specialists and is the current Chairman of the Rail Industry Fire association (RIFA).

Paul formed Kingfell in 1995 and has built it up into a multi-million pound turnover organisation that it is today specialising in fire, risk and crisis control.

Ten thousand residents were evacuated from their homes after a

propane explosion in Toronto, writes William A Stewart, who outlines

the fire fighting response and describes clean-up operations.

 Train crash lpg blaze.

‘Inferno’, ‘apocalypse’ and ‘hell on earth’ are some of the terms used to describe the devastating forest fi res which broke out across Greece and claimed at least 68 victims, many of them children, writes Ioannis Kapakis

Mutual aid at derailment.

When a freight train carrying ethanol left the track between Cherry Valley and Rockford, causing a massive fire, strong co-operative emergency response ensured the incident was handled effectively, says Chief Craig Wilt.