Risk Assessment
The importance of risk
assessment is stressed in the Civil
Contingencies Act 2004 (CCA). The CCA places a duty on
all Category 1 responders to carry out risk assessments. The
purpose of the duty is to:
- ensure that local responders have an accurate 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 local responders to assess the adequacy of their plans
and capabilities, highlight existing measures that are appropriate,
and allow gaps to be identified
- facilitate joined up local planning, based on consistent planning
assumptions;
- enable local responders to provide an accessible overview of
the emergency planning context for the public and officials; and
- inform and reflect regional and national risk assessments that
support emergencu planning and capability development at those
levels.
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