Bomb Awareness
This course is designed to give members of staff who would be involved in the immediate actions following a bomb incident the knowledge and understanding to control the initial evacuation and safe guard employees
The course duration is approximately 3 hours and is designed to cover the following areas
- Types of Improvised Explosive Device
- Postal bombs
- Tactics employed by terrorist
- Emergency plan requirements
- Carrying out and monitoring an evacuation
- Assembly point procedures
- Preventative measures
How real is the threat?
The 7 July 2005 London bombings (also called the 7/7 bombings) were a series of coordinated bomb blasts that hit London's public transport system during the morning rush hour. Carried out by British Islamist extremists, the suicide bombings were motivated by Britain's involvement in the Iraq War and other conflicts.
At 8:50 a.m., three bombs exploded within fifty seconds of each other on three London Underground trains. A fourth bomb exploded on a bus nearly an hour later at 9:47 a.m. in Tavistock Square. The bombings killed 52 commuters and the four suicide bombers, injured 700, and caused disruption of the city's transport system (severely for the first day) and the country's mobile telecommunications infrastructure.
