UK resilience abbreviations

This reference source has been created to collate UK resilience abbreviations into a single location. UK resilience is the equivalent of the EU civil protection and other countries' emergency management programmes.

Abbreviation	Meaning	Explanation
CCA2004	Civil Contingencies Act 2004	The underpinning legislation of the UK Resilience programme
CCS	Civil Contingencies Secretariat	Created in July 2001, this is the department of the British Cabinet Office responsible for emergency planning in the UK
CNI	Critical National Infrastructure	Elements of critical infrastructure which have been identified by Government as being of strategic national importance to essential service delivery
COBR	Cabinet Office Briefing Room	UK Government's dedicated crisis management facilities, which are activated in the event of an emergency requiring support and co-ordination at the national strategic level
COMAH	Control of Major Accident Hazards	Regulations, current version 2015, that are in place for the emergency planning arrangements in regards to large scale hazardous materials storage and use in the UK
COP	Common Operational Picture	A single identical display of relevant (operational) information.
DECC	Department of Energy and Climate Change	Lead UK Govt. Dept. for Oil, Power Generation, Coal, Gas and Electricity Industry emergencies
DEFRA	Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Lead UK Govt. Dept. for flooding and environmental protection
EA	Environment Agency	Agency within DEFRA with lead responsibility for environmental protection and flooding
EPC	Emergency Planning College	UK Govt. Centre of Learning for UK Resilience programme.
FRS	Fire & Rescue Service	Common organisational title used for services delivering first response activities relating to fires, HAZMAT and rescues.
JESIP	Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme	Established in 2012 to address the recommendations and findings from a number of major incident reports.
LRF	Local Resilience Forum	Local resilience forums (LRFs) are multi-agency partnerships made up of representatives from local public services, including the emergency services, local authorities, the NHS, the Environment Agency and others. These agencies are known as Category 1 Responders, as defined by the Civil Contingencies Act.
LSGE	Local Supply Gas Emergency	Emergency resulting from a threatened or actual loss of supply in the gas distribution network at local level
MAPP	Major Accident Prevention Procedures	Document setting accident prevention procedures in place at low level COMAH sites
MATTE	Major Accidents to the Environment	DETR COMAH Regs CDOIF Guidelines setting out different severity and durations of incidents impacting on the environment comprising four MATTE levels.
NCEC	National Chemical Emergency Centre	NCEC delivers the 24-hour emergency response service for the UK Chemical Industry
NSGE	Network Supply Gas Emergency	Emergency resulting from a threatened or actual loss of supply in the UK Gas network
SCG	Strategic Command Group	Multi-agency command group at the strategic level within the hierarchical command structure for emergencies.
TCG	Tactical Co-ordination Group	A multi-agency group of tactical commanders that meets to determine, co-ordinate and deliver the tactical response to an emergency
TRANSEC	Transport Security and Contingencies	Department for Transport's Transport Security and Contingencies Directorate

External links

Civil Contingencies Secretariat Lexicon