London Mass Fatalities Plan
Designed to provide tactical options and guidance to all agencies responding to an incident involving mass fatality, the plan also provides additional options for dealing with incidents involving large numbers of human fatalities. It may also be used to cater for the response to an incident overseas which calls for the identification and repatriation of large numbers of UK nationals.
Specifically, the plan details arrangements for the provision of suitable mortuary facilities as well as offering advice and guidance aimed at facilitating:
- an appreciation of the definition and purpose of available mortuary types
- effective coronial management structures
- effective co-ordination of the local authority lead
- an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of relevant organisations and key individual roles therein
- successful management of the mortuary and the procedures therein
- an understanding of the structures that exist to assist in the identification of disaster victims
- an appreciation of religious and cultural issues relative to the management of the deceased
- insight into the international dimensions of mass fatality incidents
- knowledge of property and evidence management procedures
- an awareness of complementary plans and protocols available for use by all relevant agencies.
Other published Emergency Plans include
The London Humanitarian Assistance Centre (HAC) Plan should be read by all those organisations who work to implement multi-agency humanitarian assistance centres in London to ensure that, in the event of an emergency, bereaved families, friends and survivors can immediately receive information, help and advice.
The Strategic Emergency Plan is a blueprint for effective handling of any disruptive incident in the Capital comprising of synopses of the key plans on which London's resilience is based - for example the Command and Control Protocol, the Communication Protocol, the Mass Fatalities plan, the large-scale evacuation framework and the Site Clearance plan.