Insights from the Eddistone Team
Practical thinking on resilience, emergency and crisis management, technical safety, exercises and organisational preparedness.
Incident Management Team (IMT) Leadership
A successful tactical-level response relies on an effective Incident Management Team (IMT) leader. The IMT takes a ‘whole-site’ perspective to emergency management – a demanding brief – and the role of leader is pivotal to the outcome. The IMT needs to quickly understand the scale and scope of the emergency, decide on a plan of [...]
Eddistone Consulting – our blended approach to training and exercising
A year on: lessons learned Around a year ago we committed to supporting clients with emergency management support throughout this pandemic, wherever possible. Not all clients have taken up our offer, but we have continued training and exercising for several, throughout. In fact, we have learned some valuable lessons, which, we believe make our offer [...]
Real competence development, not just ‘tick-box’ training
Real competence development relies on maximising training transfer - the degree to which people apply the knowledge, skills and experience from the training context back to their job. A good level of training transfer is essential if organisations are to obtain value for money from their investment in training. But organisations often don’t evaluate the [...]
Remote training to maintain regulatory compliance
Organisations in the COMAH sector need to know there is a consistent high level of emergency response capability in place, ready to respond should an emergency situation occur on site. Rapid action to protect people, environment and assets is vital to manage the situation and prevent potential escalation. Our clients recognise this requirement to maintain [...]
Crisis Management is career-defining – Live crisis facilitation
In an ideal world, you’ve been exercising your crisis team for years; team members know each other well, they follow a process fluently and understand the full range of risk scenarios. You have practised activation, use of information sharing and communications systems; you have slick meeting arrangements, including virtual and alternate locations. In the real [...]
Incident Management Team – Beyond regulatory compliance
Organisations need to know there is a consistent high level of Incident Management Team (IMT) capability in place, ready to respond should an emergency situation occur on site. The link between a successful tactical-level response and positive outcomes for the organisation is easy to see. Rapid action to protect people, environment and assets is vital [...]