risk assessments and community risk register

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21 October 2016

BCI East of England Forum

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Agenda

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BCI East of England Forum – Who Are We?

What we do:•Promote networking with other BCM Professionals within their own community and across the industry globally.

•Facilitate the sharing of knowledge and experience across the profession to benefit members locally and abroad.

•Stimulate development of business continuity management practices and better performance among professionals and others.

•Encourage members and others to undertake voluntary work for the BCI and to promote membership of the BCI.

•Provide a communications channel between Regional Forum members and the BCI Global Membership Council.

Where to find more about us:http://www.thebci.org/index.php/south-east-england-forum

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Contact Us – BCI East of England Forum [email protected]

Chairman: ─ Mark Suttle [email protected]

Vice Chairman: ─ Richard Verrinder

Secretary: ─ Brian Kinch [email protected]

Committee Members: ─ Jim Barrow─ Adrian Jolly─ Tim Cracknell─ Josh Subair

BCI Community Engagement Manager:

─ David West [email protected]

Robert Schiel EP Dip; MEPS

Emergency Planning AdvisorCambridgeshire County Council

Business Continuity Institute briefing Friday 21st October, 2016

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Local Resilience Forum

Risk Assessments and Community Risk Register

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Local Resilience Forum [LRF]

The LRF is made up of Local Responders (Category 1 & 2)Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Local Authorities; Cambridgeshire Police; British Transport Police; Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service; East of England Ambulance Service; National Health Service England; NHS Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group; NHS Acute Trusts; Public Health England; Environment Agency; Utility Companies; Transport Companies; Highways England; Military.

The purpose of the LRF is:

“To ensure effective delivery of those duties under the Civil Contingencies Act that need to be developed in a multi-agency environment and individually”

This includes the compilation of agreed risk profiles for the area, through a Community Risk Register.

The Law Civil Contingencies Act 2004

What the Act and the Regulations require?The Act places a Risk Assessment duty on all Category 1 Responders, the purpose of the duty is to:

• Ensure Category 1 Responders have an accurate and shared understanding of the risks that they face so that planning has a sound foundation and is proportionate to the risks.

• Provide a rational basis for the prioritisation of objectives and work programmes and the allocation of resources.• Enable responders to assess the adequacy of their plans and capabilities,

addressing any identified gaps.• Enable Category 1 Responders to provide an accessible overview of the emergency planning and business continuity planning context for the public.

•Inform and reflect Regional and National Risk assessment that support emergency planning and business continuity planning.

What the Act and the Regulations require?

• The CCA places a duty on all Category One Responders to assess the risk of an EMERGENCY within, or affecting, a geographical area for which each Category 1 Responder is responsible.

• This requires responders to compile and maintain a multi-agency Community Risk Register.


An EMERGENCY is defined as an event or situation which threatens serious damage to:


• Human Welfare in a place in the UK.

• The Environment of a place in the UK.

• War or Terrorism which threatens serious damage to the security of the UK

There is a duty to plan but only if the EMERGENCY (threat or hazard):

i) would be likely to seriously obstruct a Category 1 Responder in the performance of its functions or

ii) requires the Category 1 Responder to exercise its functions and undertake a special mobilisation.

Each year the Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat publish a Local Risk Management Guidance document which is the amalgamation of the local risk assessment guidance; local resilience planning assumptions guidance.

The document also supports Category 1 Responders in developing their local risk assessments by providing central guidance on the Likelihood of some potential Emergencies occurring and what the Impact assessment would be, in order to establish the overall Risk Assessment.

Guidance

Risk Assessment Cycle

The risks are established by looking at the likelihood of the hazard occurring and the impact. The impact has several aspects that are assessed. These are Economic, Fatalities, Casualties and Social DisruptionTransportFood and WaterFuelGasElectricityFinanceCommunicationsEducationAccess to Health careEvacuationShelterEnvironmentalPsychologicalPublic OutragePublic Anxiety

1. Conceptualisation

Theories / Ideas from the LRF

2. Hazard Identification and Allocation

Undertaken by the LRF and involves identifying and

describing hazards likely to give rise to emergencies

(Task RAWG)

3. Risk AnalysisUndertaken by the ‘Lead’ assessment agency. An

assessment of the likelihood and impact of the hazard occurring over a 5 year

period is made using the Central Government

assessments and local knowledge

4. Risk Evaluation

Once the Impact and Likelihood

have been assessed and

agreed the risk is plotted on the risk

matrix

5. Risk TreatmentUndertaken by the LRF

involving Cat 1 responders. An

assessment is made of the capability challenges presented by the risk. An appropriate strategy can then be identified to help

mitigate the risk.

6. Monitoring and Reviewing

A formal review is undertaken by the LRF every three years or ad

hoc when the need arises.

Risk Matrix

NB:- Impact is considered higher than likelihoodAll risks identified are assessed on historical evidence and subject matter expert advice and information

Risk Definitions are classed to not only develop strategies to reduce or eliminate the risks, but also that mitigation in the form of (multi-agency) planning, exercising and training is put in place.

The Risk matrix combines the Impact and Likelihood to give an overall score

Impact Assessment

Risks identified in

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

Denial of, or damage to facilities (Fire, Flood, Evacuation)

Loss of Key Staff / Skills (School closures / Flu Pandemic)

Loss of resources (Vehicles)

Loss of critical systems (Electricity / IT / Communications)

Resilience of external suppliers to ensure that you could .....continue to provide your service

Dependencies are important linkages both linear flow and ... .complex coupling.

Think !

Incidentand

Consequences

Human Health

Influenza type disease

Outbreak of Emerging infectious disease (SARS / Ebola)

Localised legionella / meningitis outbreak

Industrial Technical Failure

Technical failure of Oil, Gas or Electricity Network

Failure of water infrastructure or accidental contamination with a non-toxic contaminant

No notice loss of telecommunications

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Severe Space Weather(Solar Flares / Radiation Storms / Coronal Mass Ejections)

Electricity Supply Aircraft Satellite Communications GPS / Navigation systems

Large toxic Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear substance release

Explosion at high pressure gas pipeline

COMAH site accident

Industrial explosions and major fires

Major pollution of surface waters and groundwater

Storms and Gales

Low temperature and Heavy Snow

Flooding: Major Coastal and Tidal

Flooding: Severe fluvial flooding

Flooding: Localised flash flooding

Drought

Heatwave

Natural Hazards and Severe Weather

Flood risk areas

Aviation Accident

Local accident on Motorways and Major Trunk roads

Railway Accident

Transportation of hazardous chemicals / fuel / explosives

Transport Accident

Stansted Airport(4th busiest in the UK)

18 Airlines / 170 Destinations

168,629 Aircraft Movements

22, 519,178 Passengers

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Luton Airport(5th busiest in the UK)

16 Airlines / / 176 Destinations

114,083 Aircraft Movements

12,263,505Passengers

2015

StructuralReservoir / Dam collapse

Building collapse

Bridge collapse

Animal HealthOutbreak of exotic notifiable disease in animals (including birds)

Foot and Mouth

Blue Tongue

Avian / Bird Flu H5N1

Swine Flu H1N1

Industrial ActionEmergency Services loss of emergency fire and rescue cover because of industrial action

Public Disorder

Hazards From Outside of the County which could have an

impact

Cambridgeshire “A quiet rural County?” Almost 2,000 homes were left without power in Cambridge this weekend – but were soon back on the grid thanks to an emergency generator.Homes in the Abbey area of Cambridge lost power at around 10.30pm on Saturday night, due to problems with an underground cable.

Publication of Risk Assessment

The Act requires each Category 1 Responder to arrange to

publish all or part of its Risk Assessments.

Security Classification & Sensitive Information

Information prejudicial to National Security

Information prejudicial to Public Safety

Commercially sensitive information

Personal Data etc.

Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service Website

Community Risk Register v3.0

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