Essay

7 July Review Committee

Volume 4: follow-up report

August 2007

London Assembly 7 July Review Committee, follow-up report, August 2007

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Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................................5
Communications with passengers and others affected by emergencies...........................9
Driver communications with line controllers..................................................................10
Underground radio communications for the emergency and transport services ............12
Digital radios within the emergency services .................................................................13
Personal Role Radios and other available technologies .................................................18
Deployment of emergency services to incidents on the Underground...........................20
Emergency Response Unit.............................................................................................21
Declaration of major incidents across the emergency services.......................................23
Communications between managers at the scene and their control rooms ...................24
Access Overload Control (ACCOLC) ..............................................................................25
London Ambulance Service communications improvements .........................................27
London Ambulance Service delivery of supplies and equipment to the scenes of major
incidents, and storage of medical equipment at key stations on the transport network 28
Maintaining accurate records of the response...............................................................29
Notification of hospitals in the vicinity of a major incident ...........................................30
Emergency lighting in tunnels.......................................................................................33
First aid kits on public...