A Deep Dive into the UK Resilience Lessons Digest (Issue 2)

Part of the Government’s commitment to strengthening whole-of-society resilience, the second issue of the UK Resilience Lessons Digest explores the key lessons that have arisen from more than a decade of emergency exercises. What’s its larger purpose?

Well, knowledge is power – in fewer places more so than in emergency and disaster management.

To that end, the Digest specifically seeks to summarise transferable lessons and themes. Those lessons and themes come from a wide range of relevant sources. And that serves the purpose of contributing to a growing knowledge base for emergency management best practice.

Furthermore, lessons, once summarised, are then shared across responder organisations and the wider resilience community.

The purpose, here, is to coordinate such knowledge in order to drive improvements in doctrine, standards, practice, as well as training and exercises.

What are the lessons being analysed? The Digest focuses on key learnings from 14-public facing post-exercise reports (PXRs) and two PXRs dealing specifically with the Manchester Arena Inquiry and Grenfell Tower Inquiry.

Putting it all together, 456 lessons were abstracted across the 16 reports.

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