SubscribeAtlas OPS is a high powered and fully integrated software system meeting the requirements of all agencies that have a responsibility or requirement to effectively manage and plan for large scale emergency or crisis situations.
The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 has placed many legislative requirements on the responder communities in order to ensure that as far as is possible responders are ready to deal with local, regional and national scale emergencies. Category 1 and 2 responders have a duty to share information, and this is very much encouraged as ‘best practice.’
Industry and transport
The software provides solutions for a wide range of requirements including:
- Crisis and Emergency Management
- Emergency and Contingency Planning
- Command and Control of resources
- Full logging of actions, decisions and responses
- Event Planning
- Local, networked and inter-authority coordination
- Briefing
- Effective use of the system for training and simulated exercises
It is now a requirement of Local Authorities to actively apply the principles of Integrated Emergency Management (IEM) to ensure the effective co-ordination and management of an inter-agency response to any major incident or event.
Utilities – ports and airports
This requires a close co-operation and partnership with all of the emergency services, county and district local government, major utility companies and other statutory and voluntary organisations.
The use of the Atlas OPS integrated emergency management system allows a generic framework to be implemented defining the relationships and responses between different levels of management. This will also allow each agency to customise its own response plans to ensure the effective integration and interface to the plans of others.
The Atlas OPS system provides the flexibility to provide the appropriate level of response depending on ‘local’ circumstances and ensure that all partner agencies are aware of their roles and responsibilities in any combined response.
Public events
One of the main areas of concern for Local Authorities is not just during the incident itself, but in the immediate aftermath and medium to long term recovery stage of a large scale emergency. The Local Authority has a duty for the provision of a required level of support to those people involved in the incident and also living in the area.
Effective use of the Atlas OPS IEM can assist the Authority with management of resources, full auditing, recording of actions, and assisting with the key role of co-ordinating the emergency response from the voluntary and partner agencies.
Terrorism
Atlas OPS IEM has been developed to provide a central source of information supporting all levels of the emergency management process including:
- An operational tool that will link front line emergency operations to the Local Authority integrated emergency and operational management support centres. These may be distributed at county, district or partner level.
- The production, development and guide lines for an effective assessment and evaluation of any on-going emergency situation.
- Generation and production of plans which will support the inter-agency management of major incidents and events by the activation of agreed procedures and response.
- Full access and availability to highly detailed electronic plans and guidelines to cover a wide range of eventualities or contingencies that the authority may have to respond to.
- Complete chronological event / incident log. This will be used to collate all information generated during an incident to provide a tool for effectively managing and monitoring emergency situations as they occur. One other key benefit of using Atlas OPS is the subsequent review and de-brief of all information during the post incident inquiry in both textual and graphical form.
- Effective development of a fully integrated Incident Management System in a training or exercise mode to ensure key staff are familiar with their roles, responsibilities and management procedures of their departments in response to and emergency situation.
Natural disasters
The Atlas OPS IEM system provides a comprehensive solution which meets the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, greatly improving the coordination, efficiency and effectiveness of Local Authorities during emergency situations.
In summary, some of the key benefits that an organisation will receive from implementing the Atlas OPS IEM system are:
- Greatly improved and enhanced efficiency during emergency situations
- Interactive and highly effective delivery of exercises and training
- Comprehensive and auditable incident logs and incident recording
- Improvements to management information and strategic response
- Exchange of information between agencies and organisations
Coordinated planning and response
