We have staff who deal with emergencies. They are:
- the emergency planning and resilience team who provide their skills and knowledge to make sure emergency plans are followed
- strategic officers, usually the chief executive or a deputy, who provide overall direction of the response to critical or major incidents
- local authority liaison officers who visit the incident scene and work with emergency services
- duty officers from different departments who respond to an emergency
- emergency centre managers who run emergency centres, including rest centres, if residents need shelter and support following an evacuation
- the Haringey emergency response team who are a team of trained volunteers who help in an emergency
- Haringey borough emergency control centre team who support information sharing and coordination during major incidents
During a major emergency we continue our normal day-to-day services to residents. If we’re affected by the emergency, we’ll manage this as set out in our business continuity plan.
During an emergency we may:
- provide support to emergency services
- provide support and care to the local and wider community
- use resources to lessen the effects of an emergency
- coordinate a response by organisations other than the emergency services
At the scene of an emergency, we may provide:
- traffic management
- emergency repair to roads
- information to the police from CCTV
- environmental health advice
- emergency housing repairs
- waste management and street cleaning