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Community Risk Register for West Mercia Local Resilience Forum
As part of the hazard review process we have been considering a range of scenarios which can be assessed for both the likelihood of them occurring and the impact that would result if they were to happen.
The inclusion of these hazards or the particular scenario (i.e. the outcome description), does not mean that the Local Resilience Forum (LRF) believes the risk will materialise, or that if it were to do so, it would be at that scale. The risk scenarios are reasonable worst case scenario assumptions upon which we have based our risk assessment work.
Risk assessment is a dynamic, ongoing process. Current risk assessments associated with Risk Sub-categories and their Outcome Descriptions can be viewed by following the respective links in the table below.
An overview of the risks assessed within the West Mercia Local Resilience Forum area can be viewed via our Risk Rating Matrix. This link also identifies the LRF Risk Review Methodology and Risk Category Definitions.
The following table provides details of the hazard scenarios and the outcome descriptions that are being considered for this LRF area:
Risks : Industrial Accidents and Environmental Pollution
Sort by : Reference Risk Review Date| H1 | Fire or explosion at a gas LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) or LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) terminal (or associated onshore feedstock pipeline or flammable gas storage site Low Due for review 01-12-2012 | View |
| H11 | Accidental release of radioactive material from incorrectly handled or disposed of sources. Medium Due for review 01-06-2010 | View |
| H12 | Biological substance release from facility where pathogens are handled deliberately (e.g. pathogen release from containment laboratory). Medium Due for review 01-12-2011 | View |
| H14 | Major contamination incident with widespread implications for the food chain arising from: (a) Industrial accident (chemical, microbiological, nuclear) affecting food production areas e.g. Chernobyl, Sea Empress oil spill, animal disease. (b) Contamination of animal feed e.g. dioxins BSE (c) Incidents arising from production processes e.g. adulteration of chilli powder with Sudan 1 dye. High Due for review 01-10-2010 | View |
| H4 | Fire or explosion at a fuel distribution site and tank storage of flammable or toxic liquids. Low Due for review 01-12-2010 | View |
| H5 | Fire or explosion at an onshore fuel pipeline. Low Due for review 01-08-2010 | View |
| H7 | Explosion at a high pressure gas pipeline Low | View |
| H8 | Very large toxic chemical release. Medium Due for review 01-10-2011 | View |
| H9 | Toxic chemical release. Low Due for review 01-08-2012 | View |
| HL1 | Fire or explosion at a gas terminal or involving a gas pipeline. Low Due for review 01-07-2010 | View |
| HL2 | Localised Industrial accident involving large toxic release e.g. from a site storing large quantities of chlorine. Medium Due for review 01-07-2011 | View |
| HL3 | Localised Industrial accident involving small toxic release. Medium Due for review 01-07-2011 | View |
| HL4 | Major pollution of controlled waters. High Due for review 01-03-2011 | View |
| HL5 | Major land quality incident (this risk has been removed from the CRR in line with national guidance) High | View |
| HL6 | Major air quality incident. NB this risk is now incorporated into Risk HL7 High | View |
| HL7 | Industrial explosions and major fires. Medium Due for review 01-02-2012 | View |
The National Risk Register (NRR) is a national picture, derived from the National Risk Assessment, of the risks of emergencies. The Matrix [shown below] gives an indication of the relative likelihood and impact of the high consequence risks that are outlined in the NRR. It includes the risk of a number of kinds of terrorist attacks, shown here as attacks on crowded places, transport systems, and critical infrastructure, and attacks using non-conventional (or in other words chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) materials. In planning for emergencies West Mercia Local Resilience Forum take into account the impact that such attacks would have in the local area as much as we do the impacts of other hazards of a more local nature.
