It is important to regularly review and update your Community
Emergency Plan to ensure it meets the changing needs of your
community. It is also important to make sure that your Plan will
work properly in an emergency.
As a minimum, you should check regularly that it is still up to
date. You may want to practise using the Plan to test how well it
would work in an emergency, and see how ready members of your team
and volunteers are to help out.
You could work with your local emergency responders, using the
local risk assessment you have produced, to identify scenarios that
you can use to test the arrangements you have made in your
Plan.
Your local emergency responders may be planning to practise their
own emergency plans, and if so, you may be able to practise
"activating" your Plan as part of their exercise.
Practising the arrangements in your Plan will allow you to identify
any problems with it. Once you have practised your Plan, you should
review and update it. You should also regularly update your
emergency contact list to ensure it is accurate.
When you make any changes to the Plan, you should record them to
make sure that everyone knows they are using the latest version and
ensure that everyone who needs a copy of the Plan is sent a copy of
the updated version.