Major Incident
Roles and Responsibilities

HSE Secretariat

Role

HSE Secretariat provides regular briefings on major incident investigations to the Executive, HSC, Communication Directorate (and if necessary the Central Office of Information (COI)), Department of Work and Pensions, Ministers (via the Health and Safety Sponsorship division), local MPs as necessary, other government departments and devolved administrations, if appropriate.

Responsibilities

Ensures that it has a written plan detailing effective arrangements for:

• communicating with the relevant Directorate(s)/Division(s), including policy directorates, which also provides for out-of-hours contacts
• liaising with other government departments, regulatory bodies, the Scottish and Welsh Executives and relevant Government News Network contacts
• actively seeking information on the incident to be able to prepare, in consultation with the Press Office, statements for the media, senior management, members of the Executive or Ministers, etc

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