EMS was established in 2007 by a group of emergency management trainers and consultants.  As a small  company reputation is everything and to ensure complete consistency and quality of service all work is overseen by the principal emergency management consultant, Brian Dillon, the company founder and managing director. Brian has considerable police experience which included being the Emergency Planning Manager for Lancashire Constabulary and the secretary to the Lancashire Resilience Forum for over 10 years. He was a police emergency planning consultant to many public and private sector organisations which include the fire service, ambulance service, local authorities, Environment Agency, Health Protection Agency, Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Ministry of Defence. He was the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) representative on a number of issues nationally.

He worked closely with British Energy (EDF), Springfield’s Fuels Ltd formerly BNFL, Centrica / British Gas, National Grid, BAE Systems and United Utilities. He has chaired a group in the Government Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) formerly part of the Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Department (BERR), on strategic management of nuclear emergencies. 

Brian has developed and delivered multi-agency major incident management training in the UK and abroad and trained police officers in major incident management from operational level up to Chief Police Officer level on aspects of strategic co-ordination centre management.  He is also the course director for the only distance learning course in emergency planning in the UK. He is a regular trainer at the Emergency Planning College at Easingwold, now managed by Serco and is a marker for Leicester University MSc programme in Emergency Management and Risk Crisis and Disaster Management.  

His plans included those used for major incident response and terrorist attack at the Labour and Conservative party conferences at Blackpool. Other plans have been used to manage the Chinese ‘Cockler’ tragedy in Morecambe Bay and the Virgin train derailment in Cumbria in 2007.

Brian holds a Master's degree in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management and is a specialist member of the Business Continuity Institute, Emergency Planning Society and the Institute of Fire Safety Managers. He is the author of  the 'Emergency Planning Officers' Handbook' published by Oxford University Press in 2009 (ISBN 978-0-19-956136-0).