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Community safety
Emergencies
Emergency situations, either natural or human caused, are not a regular
feature of life in Adur. Sadly, recent acts of terrorism have led us to consider
other types of emergencies that we might need to prepare for.
Adur has sound and well-practised emergency management arrangements to deal with emergencies and disasters. However, there are things you can do to promote your safety and reduce the risk of injury to yourself, your family and your property.
Our Emergency Situations and Civil Contingency booklet (below) outlines some practical steps to help you be better prepared for an emergency and to let you know what to do if one occurs.
If you live or work in a part of Adur which sometimes experiences natural disasters - such as floods or severe storms - you may already be familiar with the sorts of things you can do to prepare yourself for emergencies.
If you have never experienced a major emergency or thought about the impact it may have on you or your family, this booklet is designed to help you to identify issues and prepare for the unexpected.
Knowing what to do makes it easier to stay calm and confident in an emergency - preparation is the key.
- Emergency out of hours contact numbers
- Emergency plan (.PDF 398kb)
- Emergency Situations and Civil Contingency booklet (.PDF 60kb)
See also :
- Avian influenza / bird flu
- Bluetongue
- Business continuity - Do you have a plan?
- Community Risk Register
- Drought / hosepipe bans
- Fire
- Flooding see also flood bags
- Flu
- Foot & Mouth
- Fuel restrictions
- Heat waves
- Mobile phones - ICE Campaign (In Case of Emergency)
- Police
- Preparing for Emergencies(recent government booklet)
- Sandbags and sandbag protocol - see the sandbags section on the flood bags page
- Severe weather
- Threat levels (national security)
- Volcanic ash - health and travel update
- See also : Animal welfare - dead or injured animals :
Useful links
Emergency services :
- Police : Sussex Police
- Fire : West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
- Ambulance : South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) NHS Trust
- Health : NHS
Other external websites with emergency planning useful contacts :
- Coastguard (www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga07-home.htm)
- RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution (www.rnli.org.uk)
- Aircraft : Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) (www.caa.co.uk) : Shoreham Airport (www.shorehamairport.co.uk)
- Shipping : Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) (www.mcga.gov.uk) : Shoreham Port Authority (www.shoreham-port.co.uk/Home)
- Electrical : EDF (was Seeboard) (www.edfenergy.com/edf-energy/showPage.do?name=homeenergy.til)
- Gas : National Grid UK (was Transco) (www.nationalgrid.com/uk)
- Water : Southern Water (www.southernwater.co.uk)
- Highways Agency (www.highways.gov.uk)
- West Sussex County Council emergencies webpages(www.westsussex.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7715)
- Public safety / General Accidents : Health and Safety Executive (www.hse.gov.uk)
- Radiation : Health Protection Agency (was the National Radiological Protection Board) (www.hpa.org.uk)
- www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ukresilience : This site contains up to the minute information and contingency planning advice should any of the following incidents occur in the UK : Air Crash, Chemical Accident, Civil Contingencies, Drought, Epidemic, Flooding, Food Alerts, Fuel Crisis, Terrorism, Web & Internet Alerts
Previous emergency newsflashes
- Wood loss from vessel - Sinegorsk 19-01-2009
- Sunken vessel - Ice Prince - Shoreham Beach update 15/02/2008
- Sunken vessel - Ice Prince - Letters to residents 04 & 06/02/2008
- Sunken vessel - Ice Prince - update 28/01/2008
- Sunken vessel - Ice Prince - Initial report 17/01/2008
