| UK government issues updated guidance on CBRN decontamination
Developed by the Home Office-led Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear (CBRN) Resilience Programme, the guidance is designed to help all organisations who may be involved in responding to a release of CBRN materials, including - government departments, local authorities, business continuity professionals, emergency services and the wider emergency planning community. Augmenting existing guidance, it will help all those who need to have in place practical strategies for clean-up and provides an agreed set of basic disaster recovery principles. Beverley Hughes, the Home Office Minister with
responsibility for overseeing "Publication of this guidance does not
signal any new threat to the UK. It is Elliot Morley, Minister for the Environment said: "Providing guidance is an essential part of giving everyone who has a role in recovery from incidents involving CBRN material, with the information they need to put in place sensible contingency plans. It will help local authorities, emergency services and others develop practical strategies and emergency plans. The publication reveals that The government is actively considering the establishment of a new service to be ready to provide advice and assistance in decontamination and clean-up after a CBRN incident. The new publication, ‘The decontamination of the open environment exposed to chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear substances or material: strategic national guidance’ published by Defra, is available online at http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/risk/cbrn/ or http://www.ukresilience.info/cbrn/index.htm
•Date:
26th March 2004 •Region: UK •Type:
Article •Topic: Terrorism |
