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

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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

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