20Keeping, maintaining and testing emergency management plan

#### 20 Keeping, maintaining and testing emergency management plan 20 Keeping, maintaining and testing emergency management plan > > (1) A rail transport operator must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that all employees of the operator, and all contractors engaged by the operator, who may be required to implement any emergency response procedures in the emergency management plan— > > > > > (a) are provided with information (including by way of briefings and appropriate education programs) about the relevant elements of the plan; and > > > > > (b) are able to do anything that may be required of them under the plan. > > > (2) The rail transport operator must test the emergency management plan, or elements of the plan, to ensure that the plan remains effective— > > > > > (a) at the intervals set out in the plan; and > > > > > (b) after any significant changes are made to the plan. > > > (3) In preparing an emergency management plan, the rail transport operator must, if it is reasonably practicable to do so, determine intervals for the purposes of subregulation (2)(a) in conjunction with the emergency services. > > > (4) When testing the emergency management plan, or elements of the plan, the rail transport operator must, so far as is reasonably practicable, arrange for participation in the testing by the relevant emergency services. > > > (5) The rail transport operator must ensure that in-house exercises to test the emergency management plan are undertaken as often as is necessary, in the opinion of the operator, to ensure that the plan will be properly implemented should an emergency arise. > > > (6) A rail transport operator must ensure that the emergency management plan is comprehensible, and is readily accessible at all times, to— > > > > > (a) all employees of the operator, and all contractors engaged by the operator, who may be required to implement any emergency response procedures in the plan; and > > > > > (b) all other rail transport operators who may be affected by the plan; and > > > > > (c) any person or body referred to in regulation 19(1)(c); and > > > > > (d) emergency services.