Would you like to find out more about Emergency Planning?

Whether you live or work in Fife or are just visiting or passing through, our web pages will provide you with up to date information about the emergency planning arrangements in Fife and more specifically what Fife Council's contribution is to the planning.
 
 
We provide current news on incidents in Fife with the aim of ensuring you are kept up to date on developments. 

An Emergency is defined 'as an event or situation which threatens serious damage to human welfare in a place in the UK, the environment of a community in the UK, or war or terrorism which threatens serious damage to the security of the UK’.  Source: Civil Contingencies Act 2004

Preparing for Emergencies

We also have a lot of information on how you can prepare yourself and your family in the Preparing for Emergencies section which also includes:
 

• How Fife and Scotland are preparing for incidents
• Information on the Community Risk Register which shows which areas of Fife are most at risk of emergencies such as flooding
• The Emergency Plans which have been developed and are in place
• Details of training and exercises carried out in Fife which test the robustness of the plans

What to do in an emergency

Within the Responding to Emergencies section we include details on:
 

• What you should do in an emergency
• How Fife's Community Partners will respond to incidents
• Why we need Emergency Incident Management
• Information on Rest Centres and when you might need to use one
• Details of Voluntary Aid Organisations and their contribution in emergencies

What happens after an emergency situation?

The Recovering from Emergencies section has useful information on Business Continuity and how people and businesses can recover from emergency situations.

More information, questions and comments

Take a look at the Useful Links page for more information on what other agencies are doing and also view the Glossary which gives you a useful guide to Emergency Planning terms.

Last but not least, we would like to hear from you if you have any comments about Emergency Planning.  Please use our Contact us page.