Talking about the components for really workable emergency plans. This presentation will cover the important key themes of building provision, social media, business continuity and tactical salvage decision making.

1. Effective Emergency Planning in
2018
Emma Dadson
Key Account Director, Harwell Restoration

2. The Global Expert in Property Damage Control
North America
Europe
South Asia
Harwell
800 projects annually
Major loss experience
Polygon in numbers
15 countries
~300 depots
~2,900 employees, ~250,000 projects annually

3. Introduction
• Why do we need to plan?
• Opportunity to limit damage
• Primary damage
• Secondary damage
• How common are incidents?
• Heritage at Risk study
• Harwell’s experience
• Residual risk
• Implications of responding without plan

4. Case study

5. Case study

6. Case Study

8. Triage & salvage decisions
• Formulating scalable strategies
• Objectives <72 hours
• Resources for inhouse salvage
• Space, labour, equipment , expertise
• Tactical options
• Inhouse / inhouse + local support /
inhouse + local support + freezing
• What’s your tipping point?
• Better to decide day 1 than close of day 3

9. Triage & salvage decisions
• 15 linear metres of shelving gets wet
• How much drying space do you need?
• Bound volumes = 15 table tops
• 3D objects = 15 table tops
• Loose documents
• 1 table top = 150 sheets layered > 247 table tops
• Photographs
• 1 table top – 15 images, no layering > 2,475 table
tops
• Rolled maps / textiles

10. Triage & salvage decisions
• High risk of further damage during salvage
• Balance of careful handling / speed
• To salvage a library of 30,000 books
Method Crating timing
for 20 books
Hours for
salvage (30,000
items or 1500
crates)
Equivalent days
(10 salvage
personnel, 7.5
hours on-site)
Crating 3 minutes 75 1
Bagging, then
crating
8 minutes 200 2.6
Bandaging,
bagging, then
crating
28 minutes 700 9.3

11. Case study

12. Key content
• What to do if…..
• Roles
• Priorities
• Floor plans
• Equipment & Contractors
• Risk assessment for safety
• Salvage guidance
• Fabric of building AND contents
• Sign off/ training / VC

13. Escape of Water
• One page – don’t need whole plan (risk assessment on reverse)
• Process
• Organise and factfind
• Contain
• Isolate (including power) & contain
• Risk assess
• Contain impact
• Think and plan. Mop up.
• Salvage
• Debrief. Building. Learn lessons
• Getting it right
• Competent people
• Senior managers

14. Glasgow School of Art

15. Glasgow School of Art

16. Glasgow School of Art

17. Restoration possibilities

18. THANK YOU!
emma.dadson@hdrs.co.uk
@harwell_uk
T. 01235 432245
W. hdrs.co.uk