Major Incident Communications Cascade for Staff
Policy for Implementation – Updated June 2017
Context and purpose of this policy
The Faculty Health and Safety Committee conducted a review of the existing Health and Safety guidance and protocols during the summer of 2016. During this exercise it was noted that in light of the national/international developments the current advice around bomb threats should be extended to include additional guidance for staff on communicating with local PSS teams in the event of a major incident on campus particularly in relation to areas located by Humanities staff.
Having taken this proposal further and consulted with Faculty Senior Management, HPRC (November 2016); University Risk and Compliance Office (November 2016) and PSSLT (November/December 2016) there is broad agreement to establish a basic communications cascade for all PSS line managers to put in place with all PSS teams and that this should be put in place with immediate effect.