Major Incident Planning
The UoR Major Incident Plan covers a range of processes and supporting documentation to provide a co-ordinated response to major incidents occurring to University personnel, property or reputation. This also covers Emergency Planning.
This section explains the following:
- Classifications of a Major Incident
- Explanation of relative escalation levels of Bronze, Silver and Gold
- Who are the Gold, Silver & Bronze team Leaders?
The Major Incident Plan & Appendices are only available to Gold, Silver and Bronze team leaders. A separate Major Incident Plan for all staff, which details what you should do in the event of a major incident, is available to all staff
If you do not have access to a detailed level of information but believe that your role requires this, please contact the Business Continuity team, who will arrange user access.
Illustrated approach
The Gold, Silver & Bronze approach can be visualised as follows:

- Gold will be one person, thinking strategically
- The Silver Team will manage, collaborate and communicate at a tactical level
- Bronze Teams are UoR teams doing their day job, using their expertise
- A small incident may have only two or three Bronze Teams, a large incident many more
- The Silver Team will decide which Bronze teams should be part of the incident team depending on the scenario.