Current legislations and policies for emergency services

REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
Current legislations and policies for emergency services...........................................................3
Responsibilities while responding to emergency incidents........................................................4
Role of public service agencies in major incidents ....................................................................4
Planning steps while responding to major incident.....................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Government of the country always take care of making policies that can help in offering best
services n emergency. Present report will explain various legislation for emergency services. It
will describe responsibilities while responding to emergency incidents.
Task 1
Current legislations and policies for emergency services
The chemical incidents mainly occurs due to some technological incidents, conflicts,
natural disaster, terrorist etc and thus harms the human health as well as environment.
Policing and crime act 2017
This is one of the well-known legislation for the emergency services where the role of
Police is highly imperative. This is the act of parliament which was formed in United Kingdom.
As per this act, main responsibility of police in the emergency services is to investigate the
incident place thoroughly for evidence. Besides this, they are also responsible for providing the
protection to victims until specialized forces arrive (Neville and et.al.,2018).
Fire and service rescue act 2004
This is the another legislation which came into the force in 2004 and is act of parliament
within UK. This legislation applies to the Great Britain along with its provisions applying to
England as well as Wales. This act mainly clarifies as well as define duties as well as powers of
the fire authorities during the emergency services. According to this act, fire authority in UK is
mainly responsible for promoting the fire safety during the chemical incident and protecting the
people from extreme fire which emerged due to chemicals (Seba and et.al.,2019).
Health act 2006
This is one of the most important legislation being established in UK and thus applies to
the various healthcare facilities including NHS. The provision of this act applies to the services
of NHS and thus provides various administrative services to people. The major responsibility of
NHS as per this act is to perform the emergency healthcare functions of victims in chemical
incident and are bound to provide urgent health services (Nikolai, Njoroge and Madey, 2018).
Civil contingency act 2004
This act is describes obligation that needs to be beard by organization for certain
emergency services.. It gives power to government to organize events for the emerge of large
scale (Civil Contingencies Act 2004, 2020). This is responsible for risk assessment and