Kenyon International Emergency Services

Kenyon International Emergency Services is a crisis and disaster management company. We are the largest of our kind in the world. For more than 100 years we have offered specialist personnel, equipment, systems and advice at incidents, particularly those involving major loss of life.

In recent years we provided considerable resources to the Australian Government following the Asian Tsunami; body recovery expertise for the Governor of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina and for the UN in the aftermath of the Haiti Earthquake. We have assisted with care for families, victims and their belongings at air crashes in Greece, USA, Libya, India and Indonesia.

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Preparing the Launch of Kenyon Response™

The world's first complete crisis data management system, Kenyon Response™ is available commercially from 2 April 2012 and will also be in-use globally by Kenyon to assist with the management of crisis events.

Emergency Support to the UK Train Operators

The Association of Train Operating Companies in the UK (ATOC) has asked Kenyon to provide a range of emergency support functions and facilities which will be available across the UK rail network. This includes the establishment of a centralized emergency operations facility, jointly staffed by the affected train companies, ATOC and Kenyon. The organisation, systems and administration of this facility will be Kenyon's responsibility. This combined operations system will allow a rapid response to rail emergencies, provide consistency where multiple organisations are involved and a communications hub for allocating and directing resources to where they are most required.

Kenyon Helps to Shape Proposed Emergency Response Standards in Europe

Kenyon International Emergency Services, Inc. is working with the United Kingdom (UK) Department for Transport (DFT), the European Regions Airline Association (ERA), UK airlines and other stakeholders to influence emergency response preparedness standards in Europe.

In 2010, the European Union issued new regulations on Air Accident Investigation and Emergency Response (EU 996/2010). To appropriately adopt these regulations, the UK Government has taken the initiative to form a multi-party working group to consider best practice standards in 'victim assistance planning'.

Kenyon Supports FIDAE

The Fair of Air and Space Industries (FIDAE) is the principle aviation event for Central and Southern America. Kenyon was proud to sponsor the event in Santiago, Chile during the last week of March 2012.

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Kenyon Chosen to Complete the Mass Fatality Family Assistance Center Plan for the St. Louis Region (US)

Kenyon was selected as the winning bidder to complete a Mass Fatality Family Assistance Center Plan for the East-West Gateway Council of Governments and St. Louis Regional Response System (STARRS). This regional response system is composed of 12 Missouri counties and 3 Illinois counties. Major stakeholders include the region's medical examiners and coroners, the Funeral Home Directors Association, public health, hospitals, disaster human services and emergency management.

The selection committee noted that:

"Kenyon demonstrated a clear understanding of the project's scope. Their proposal included a strong selection of qualified personnel including a project manager that co-authored the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Catastrophic Incident Mass Fatality Plan. This demonstrated Kenyon's expertise in the mass fatality multijurisdictional planning experience as requested in the RFP."

"As the oldest mass fatality management company in the world, Kenyon scored high because of their project planning experience, their real world mass fatality response experience and their overall proposed project outline and schedule."

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Kenyon Releases New Training Video:
Exercise Whirlwind I

Kenyon has created and released a new training video to help convey to those that have never been to or had limited roles in a crises a sense of what actually occurs. While we have used an aviation accident as an example, the consequences of this event are easy transferrable to different events. The cause does not affect the outcome, the response does.

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Video: Warehouse Capabilities

Chris Boyer, Vice President of Operations, discusses Kenyons prestaged equipment and warehouses. With over 37,000 items in each of the 3 strategically placed warehouses, Kenyon can project their operations globally within hours of an activation.

The First Webinar Training delivered by Kenyon in Russian

Kenyon is proud to announce its first webinar training which was delivered for Yakutia Airways. Yakutia is based in Irkutsk in Russia and asked us to deliver the training in Russian. However, because of the timescale and distances involved, it was difficult to do that in person. The problem was solved by setting up a webinar using a Kenyon Associate who is a fluent Russian speaker. The course was delivered on time and we look forward to working with Yakutia airways again in future, either via the web or face-to-face.

Robert Jensen introduces Sean Gates Question and Answer Video Series

Sean Gates, Senior Partner of Gates and Partners Solicitors, is the eminent solicitor in the legal industry dealing with aviation insurance and accident litigation issues. In this series, Sean explains what airlines should look for in a good solicitor.