Major Incident
Roles and Responsibilities

Chief press officer

Roles

The chief press officer, in consultation with the investigation manager and HSE Secretariat, advises inspectors on communications with the media and deals with requests for information from the media.

S/he organises, where necessary, any HSE press conference(s) regarding the incident and HSE's role in the investigation.

Responsibilities

The chief press officer produces and maintains written detailed instructions to ensure that:

• there are effective communication links between Press Office, the Directorate/Division responding to the incident, and HSE Secretariat.
• GNN is alerted that the event has occurred
• a press officer attends the major incident site if requested by the investigation manager
• the availability of a duty press officer (who acts as deputy duty officer) to receive out-of-hours notifications and monitor reports from the media about major incidents

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