Mr. AN Roy Former DGP Maharashtra at RPR 2012, 23-26 August, Goa, India

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2. Impact
of Any Emergency in the Critical
Infrastructure
POWER
Immense
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3. Types of Emergencies
earthquake terrorist
Rapid
onset
attack
vulcano flood Tech Failure
cyclone
war
onset
Slow
civil unrest
Natural Manmade
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4. Emergencies/Disasters
• Earthquake - Geotechnical Instability – Little
Control
• Flood, Cloud Burst, Land Slide – Climate related –
Little control
• Storms, Cyclones, Hurricane – Climate related –
Little Control
• Technical Failures –
• Terrorist Attack / Bomb Explosions
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5. Risk Assessment
• Entire Response depends on this
Anticipation & Assessment
• Cross Functional
• Continuous
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6. What is Emergency Management?
• The dynamic process of preparing for,
mitigating, responding to and recovering from
an emergency.
• Preparing for War During Peace.
• Success in War depends on your planning,
preparing & training during peace.
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7. Why Emergency Response Planning?
• Quick and effective action is required during
the onset of an emergency.
• Large amount resource mobilisation required.
• Effective action often depends on having plans
in place before the disaster strikes.
• Large work force involved in ER – need to be
mobilised/trained / briefed / prepared.
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8. Principal Elements of Preparedness
• Risks and Vulnerabilities Analysis (the broad profile
of a projected emergency)
• External Preparedness (what other actors are
capable of doing)
• Internal Capacity (what we are capable of doing)
• Preparedness Actions (results of the planning
process)
• Identifying Resources – Human & Material
• Preparing Comprehensive Emergency Response
Plans
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9. Objectives of Emergency Response Plan (ERP)
• Improve state of preparedness for meeting
contingency.
• Reduce response time in organizing the ER
• Identify major resources, manpower, material and
equipment needed to make the ER operational.
• Optimum use of combined resources.
• Clearly define Roles & Responsibility
• Establish clear chain of command
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10. Phases of Emergency Management
• Risk Anticipation / Assessment
• Prevention
• Preparedness
• Response
• Recovery
• Review & updation
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11. DM Act 2005
Section 36 :
Onerous responsibility on the
Ministries to ensure that suitable
Disaster Management measures are
taken.
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12. DM Act 2005
Has brought into being a Policy, Legal and
Institutional Framework, backed by effective
statutory and financial support and outlined
an integrated approach to prevention and
mitigation measures.
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13. Disaster Management
• In India
– Apex body – NDMA
– EMRI – improve community preparedness
– DM Act 2005
– UNDP funded disaster risk management
programme
– National disaster management framework
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14. • Mainstreaming of the
Emergency Response
• Teams across functions &
levels have to play critical role
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15. Cycle of ER management
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16. Mitigation
• Preparedness
– Prepare action plans
• Evolve Processes for Prevention & Dealing with
• Emergency response teams
• Emergency warning methods
• Resource Planning
• Resources inventory building
• Alternative Mechanisms
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17. Mitigation
• Response
– Mobilization of
• Emergency teams
– Core emergency services
– Specialist teams
• First responders in area
• Implementing Alternatives
– Runs on
• Principle of unified command
• Mutual aid
– Immediate needs are addressed
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18. Mitigation
• Recovery
–Restore affected area to previous state
–Rebuild, employ and repair
–“window of opportunity” for
implementing long-term &
comprehensive measures of mitigation
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19. Management of disasters
• Implementation of ERP
– Single command team at control centre - planning,
monitoring, resource mobilization, liaison
– At site team - Repair/Replace, flow of information,
recovery at site
– Management of communication-separate teams
at site and control.
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20. Disaster Management
EMERGENCY
RESPONSE
READINESS
During
Impact
Before After
Impact
Impact RECOVERY &
Start REHABILITATION
PREPAREDNESS
For PREVENTION &
REVIEW RECALIBRATING
MITIGATION
RESPONSES/ERP
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21. Planning & Recovery Process
Risk Risk Risk
Identification Quantification Mitigation
What was at RISK ?????
 Generation
 Distribution
 Our Assets INCIDENT
 Supply to Customers
 Our Transforming Equipment
 Our Employees
 Our Company’s Image
 Our Finances
Emergency Crisis Business
Response Management recovery
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22. Success of any ERP depends on
• Training
• Briefing Continuous
• Rehearsals
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23. Feedback/Review
Rehearsal ERP Updation
Training
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24. ERP
• Not the job of ERP cell
• Involvement of all concerned
Line & Functions Staff
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25. Training
Crucial to ER
• Institutional
• On the job
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26. ER
• Has to become like a drill -
Automatic
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28. Snapshot of Deluge (26/7)
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29. Sub - Station preparedness
Flood Level Upto 3 Feet:
• Locations Identified
• Raised the Plinth of Substation Equipments
Substations in Basements:
• Locations Identified
• Customers objections in providing alternate locations at grnd
level. Property owners sensitized to the repercussions.
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30. Sub - Station preparedness
Flood Level Above 3 Feet:
• Locations Identified.
• Stilt + 1 Up done in affected
Substations.
• Raised plinth level at some
of the substations.
• Sealed Ring Main Units
installed in substations.
• Hermetically Sealed
Distribution Transformers
installed at few locations.
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31. Disaster Preparedness
System
• Prioritisation of sensitive loads (Sewage Pumping Stn,
Hospitals, Schools, Tele Exchange etc.
• Insulation Coating on Air type Bus Bars in Sub Stn.
• Pre- Monsoon inspection and necessary corrective
actions carried out for all essential equipments.
• Secondary SCADA system put in place.
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32. Disaster Control Room
SETTING UP OF CENTRAL ER CONTROL ROOM
Hotline Facility
Information Sharing ER Plan
Management with Govt .
Machinery.
Sharing and
Issue of DOs &
Dissemination of
DON’T’s & Press
Info Ads.
CENTRAL ER
CONTROL ROOM -
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