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Exercise Reports

A Framework for Major Emergency Management (Framework) 2006 is the foundation that the Principal Response Agencies (PRA’s) inter-agency major emergency exercises are built on.

The Framework replaced the 1984 Framework for Co-ordinated Response to Major Emergency document and the Framework’s purpose was “to put in place arrangements that will enable the three principal emergency response agencies, the local authorities, An Garda Síochána and the Health Service Executive to coordinate their efforts whenever a major emergency occurs”.

Major Emergency exercises are valued as an integral part of emergency preparedness with the Framework. Sligo Local Authorities are committed to the Framework for Major Emergency Management process and have partook in a series of major emergency exercises in the North West Region of Ireland from November 2007 to May 2010 as listed below. 

An emergency exercise is a simulation of an emergency situation and within this thesis, the importance of the Framework exercises is explored in an interagency context, in terms of validating plans, training personnel, reinforcing emergency training previously received by emergency managers and test emergency procedures.


The Eight Irish Major Emergency Regions are

Region Counties 

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