Tyne and Wear Emergency Planning Unit

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Tyne and Wear Emergency Planning Unit

Tyne & Wear Emergency Planning Unit, Pennine House, Washington, NE37 1LY, Tel: 0191-561 7999, Map

Tyne and Wear EPU in consultation with the five Councils and a range of other partner agencies develops and maintains both generic and specialist Major Incident Plans. These plans are designed to assist the Local Authorities and responding agencies in their efforts to effectively coordinate resources to minimize the effect of a major incident. The EPU also provides additional support to the Councils on a range of emergency preparedness and response issues.

During an incident the EPU will act in an advisory role and will also co-ordinate the efforts of any voluntary agencies to assist the Local Authority. The EPU will also co-ordinate any mutual aid arrangements from neighbouring Local Authorities should the incident warrant such assistance.

Tyne and Wear Emergency Planning Unit (EPU) provides an emergency planning service to the five Councils of Tyne and Wear.

Major incidents
The discovery of an unexploded German bomb in Hendon in 2002 serves as a reminder to us all that major Incidents occur, for a wide variety of reasons.

lockerbie Looking back into relatively recent local history, the industrial Fire at Distillex in North Shields in 2002, the tragic loss of life in the Selby train crash of February 2001 where 10 people lost their lives and the devastating downing of Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 which claimed 270 lives.

Published : 2/11/2009

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Contact :eputeam@tyneandwearepu.gov.uk