UK “ill-prepared’ for growing risk of flooding

The UK is severely under prepared to combat the growing risk of flooding according to a leading water industry training and consultancy firm.

Develop Training Ltd (DTL) has called for a new standard of quality and capacity to be implemented to prevent the UK from suffering serious and disruptive incidents in future. This will require local authorities and other organisations with responsibility for the problem needing to invest far more heavily in training.

The warning comes as council leaders press Theresa May over the delayed national flood resilience review, which was established to assess how the country can be better protected from flooding and increasingly extreme weather events. The report, due in July, has now been delayed.

Britain has been hit in recent years with severe weather and struggled to cope with flooding levels. In December 2015, Storm Desmond caused severe flooding across the north of England, Wales and Scotland, and Storm Eva, which came later that month, caused further chaos.

Effective training can play a significant part in cutting the risks through flood prevention and managing with the fallout if an incident where to happen. It allows those responsible to manage and coordinate flood responses, safely deploy relevant staff members and report on the effectiveness of defences.

DTL’s Steve Braund commented: “As with most risks, prevention is key and therefore we feel it is vital for councils and organisations to employ suitable and realistic training solutions now, instead of waiting for another flood situation to impact them.

“It is important that those involved in flood defences are correctly trained to work safely and effectively, in order to minimise the risks from the increasing incidents of flooding.”

 

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