Posted By Jonathan Breeze Ron, Check out the Home Office website on: http://www.homeoffice.go...k/terrorism/emergency/#2

Posted By Ron Impey Thanks Eric, I've done the same for our guidance on what to do if children become separated from the group in the confusion of an incident, when they may no longer be able to contact a worker on their mobile phone. Another idea that I found interesting was found in the Buckinghamshire County Council guidance on personal safety for staff in the education sector. This concerns having an alternative drill to the one for fires, where getting the children as quickly as possible back into a building, if there are circumstances where they would be safer inside. http://www.buckscc.gov.u.../documents/hands/5_7.pdf My other research within the public domain has been regarding action to take in the event of the use of a device with a chemical. biological or chemical contaminant. Hasn't happened yet, I hope it never does, but who knows. The TV coverage I've seen has not ruled out the use of 'dirty' bombs. The advice I found was to: 1. given a choice of direction to go in such an incident, to move upwind and uphill. 2. close windows and doors asap following the detonation to reduce contamination inside buildings. 3. decontaminate affected people with cool water rather than hot, to reduce skin absorption of any chemicals. 4. cut off any garments which may be contaminated instead of pulling them over the head, so as to avoid inhalation of the contaminant.

Posted By jackw. Hi sorry if I sound off but aren't we getting things a bit out of proportion and knee jerking. Re school visits to London. Statistically they are much more likely to be killed or injured on the coach, car etc. trip to the venue? Indeed are they not more likely to be hit by lightening (I know damn stats). Re business disruption etc. Contingency plans should include threats of terror, bombings etc. I would suggest on this front that you check out the video made re the major insurance company (I think it was an insurance company)sorry can't remember the name and how fast there well developed contingency plans got them back up and running after the IRA bombing of canary Wharf. Cheers.

Posted By J Knight While I largely agree with Jack's point, there is some room for thought on this without going totally overboard. My previous employer is a voluntary sector care provider; where's the bomb target in that? Well, they have a HQ on Millbank, right next door to Military Intelligence, across the river from MI6 and near somebody else (I forget who) so of course my ex-boss was quite busy reviewing their procedures after 9/11 (what happened on the 9th of November by the way?). We also have a central London office; the fact that it's on Southampton Row is pure bad luck, we have no reason to expect any of our neighbours or ourselves to be targets. The main thing that the events of 7th July showed us is that every day we have people travelling in to Central Office; we have asked anybody travelling to London who is delayed by untoward events to let us know, purely so we can stop worrying about them, John