Checkmate Exercise a Success
CHECKMATE: 1 -‘Introduction to Integrated Emergency Management’
Checkmate 1 took place at Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service
Headquarters in Winsford
on Friday 14th October, 2011.
Over 100 practitioners attended the event from many
organisations including Police,
Fire, Ambulance, Local Authorities, Health Service, Environment
Agency and a Media
Representative as well as many of our voluntary agency
colleaues.
The event provided those attending with the fundamentals
appropriate to their role in, or associated with, major/serious
incidents.
The day was based on a realistic major incident occurring within a
fictitious location.
Delegates as part of a multi agency syndicate work were given scenario feeds with questions posed to them relating to their perception of their own organisations involvement at that stage.
Following group specialists from each
organisation gave an overview of expected actions from that
agency at that stage of the incident.
Feedack comments included:
"Great -really valuable ane beneficial. All linked together - programme flowed well"
"Very enjoyable forum. Great to hear and understand that should
the worst happen the Cheshire area will cope well"
The feedback comments and de-brief will feed back into the planning
team to review its content and processes for next years event in
order to make it even better.
Presentations from the event can be viewed below.
Introduction .
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