| Its aim is to provide an information and advice service to the public during an incident resulting from chemical manufacturing - the kind that could cause inconvenience, genuine alarm and concern, or be a risk to public health and safety. It embraces 40 companies and includes transport, blending and storage of chemicals, and local power stations. It sets out to...Create procedures that are set apart from the operational response. Establish a system for disseminating information between site operators, emergency services, local authorities, local radio and other media. Categorise abnormal events by three colour codes. Who is responsible for what?A company/operator is expected to initiate the system by passing information to the police communications centre at 'the earliest opportunity' and regularly update that information. The police will acknowledge its receipt and cascade it to other members of the scheme, depending upon the coding. The local authority emergency planning unit has to acknowledge receipt of information from the police and cascade it within four local authorities. BBC Radio Cleveland is also required to acknowledge its receipt from the police and consider it for broadcast. For information contact:
Denis Hampson
Cleveland's Emergency Planning Officer
Tel: 01642 221121
Email: denis.hampson@hartlepool.gov.uk | 
