Training for Flood and Road Closure Wardens

Posted September 22, 2015 & filed under Emergency Planning.

In partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council, Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service and the Environment Agency the group has recruited and trained around 90 Flood Wardens since 2014.

Wardens attend theoretical and practical training as Road Closure Wardens with site specific risk assessments.

These theory and practical training sessions are obligatory in order to fulfil the requirements of the Nottinghamshire County Council who devolve legal authority to trained Road Closure Wardens to close specified roads when pre-determined triggers are met.

During the Community Resilience Day on May 15th 2016, the training sessions were video-ed and can be viewed by existing Wardens to refresh their training and by prospective new Wardens prior to attending a practical session which completes/refreshes their training.

See full video including talks by Dr Bajracharya and Cllr Gynn Gilfoyle here

Wardens need to refresh their training every 12/18 months and this training will be recorded to update NCC”s records.

Training sessions include

Presentation on how the Road Closure Scheme fits into the full picture of reducing flood risk – SFF road closure scheme in context
Rob Fisher’s Presentation on Road Closure Scheme development and operation and risk management Road Closure Scheme – Southwell Oct 2019 and video here
Environment Agency’s description of role of Flood and Road Closure Wardens in the Road Closure Scheme, flood warnings, assessing flood risk – see presentation here
health and safety, water safety awareness – see video by Notts Fire and Rescue here, see video of a rescue operation in Kilmarnock to demonstrate the danger of driving through floodwater
risk control and manual handling therory – see presentation here, see video here
role of Communications Hub – see video here
Josh Wells’ presentation – River monitoring SFF_flood_warden_training_Nov_2018 and River monitoring Presentation_notes