Only a few weeks into her job, then a word no one had heard of was uttered in a tense multi-agency meeting - Novichok. Tracy Daszkiewicz led the multi-agency team dealing with not one, but two major incident of contamination of one of our most iconic cities with one of the world’s deadliest nerve agents, Novichok. A real baptism of fire, and then a pandemic strikes. If ever there is a set of events for The Chair of the EPS and the lead in dealing with a disaster to chat about the practicalities, this is the one.