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Safety- regions in The Netherlands

Safety- regions in The Netherlands. Safety- regions. Introduction Why ? What problem had to be solved / what was our aim ? How did we try to do that; w hat is a safety-region actually What have we achieved Food for thought. Safety- regions : why ?. Some major (near-) disasters

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Safety- regions in The Netherlands

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  1. Safety-regions in The Netherlands

  2. Safety-regions • Introduction • Why? • Whatproblem had tobesolved/what was ouraim? • How did we try to do that; what is a safety-regionactually • What have we achieved • Food for thought Danishstudytourto The Hague safety-region

  3. Safety-regions : why ? • Some major (near-) disasters • Boeing 747 crashes into Amsterdam (1992) • Evacuation due to high water (rivers) (1995) • Hercules crashes at Eindhoven Airport (1996) • Dakota crashes near Den Helder (1996) • Legionella contamination (1999) • Fireworks explosion Enschede (2000) • Major fire in bar Volendam (2001) • Shifting of a dyke near Wilnis (2003) • Fire in detention centre at Schiphol (2005) • Airline crash Schiphol (2009) • Assault on Queen’s day at Apeldoorn (2009) • Fire at Moerdijk (2011) Danishstudytourto The Hague safety-region

  4. What was ouraim? • Betterprotection of civiliansagainstrisks; • Better relief in case of disaster or crisis • Centralized co-ordination(commandand control) over fire-brigades, police-forces, medical services, crisismanagement anddisasterrelief actions • Enhancedadministrativeandoperational power Danishstudytourto The Hague safety-region

  5. What is a Safety-region? • A safety-regionis a mandatory cooperation of allmunicipalities in a region (25 in The Netherlands) • Safety-regionsinclude: • Allmunicipalfirebrigades (tobereorganisedinto 25 regionalfire brigades) • Medicalaidorganisation (directiononly) • Control room • 4 levels of co-ordination: GRIP 1-4 • Mayor of “disasterlocation” is CinC in GRIP 1 -3 • Mayor of maincity is taking over in GRIP 4 Danishstudytourto The Hague safety-region

  6. 25 Safety regions, in addition to 12 provinces 8 plusregions 415 municipalities 10 judicial districts 10 police regions 19 environmental authorities 28 health regions 25 ambulance regions 27 local water boards 3 regional military commands Safetyregionsandothers? Danishstudytourto The Hague safety-region

  7. What have we achieved? • Awareness that a “multi-approach” is essential • New laws as of Oct 1st 2010 • All regions are/have • formally established • risk-analysis • policy-papers • disaster action plans • Multiservice training • Local knowledge and anchorage Danishstudytourto The Hague safety-region

  8. Food forthought • Focus on physical safety; social safety not included • Can safety be divided • How to raise sense of urgency • Physical disasters occur relatively seldom • Too much emphasis on riskmanagement and prevention, too little on consequence management Danishstudytourto The Hague safety-region

  9. Food forthought • Politicians are CinC (according to the law) but are they really up to that (do they have the capabilities?) • Do we really need 25 regions • Each region is relatively small, so chances of “bordercrossing” disasters and effects are high • Many officials are needed, must be trained and paid, but each has very few opportunities to have “live experiences” • Because of this: very few professionals, lots of “supplementary jobs” Danishstudytourto The Hague safety-region

  10. Food forthought • Organisational questions • Is it wise to combine operations; informationmanagement and “medical direction” in one organisation • Two essential partners are formally not branches of the safety-region, • Police (has other boundaries) • Environmental services • Military to be included? • Funding - imbalance in organisation • Fire brigades 10 (or more) times bigger than other branches of safety-regions • Safety-region is funded locally, police and military are funded nationally. Therefore : different stakeholders • Tendency to put high risk installations in sparsely populated area’s, therefore less funding for high risks Danishstudytourto The Hague safety-region

  11. Coordinated actions : GRIP GRIP: 4 phases of increasingseriousness • Incident with limited scale; source control only; but coordination between emergency services is necessary • Incident with both source and effect control; impact on surroundings • Incident of disaster that threatens well being of large groups of population within one municipality • Incident of disaster that threatens well being of large groups of population in several municipalities/regions. • Incident of disaster that threatens well being of large groups of population in the entire country or several countries. Danishstudytourto The Hague safety-region

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