Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Risk Register

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Risk Register has been published by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Local Resilience Forum as a requirement of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. Its purpose is to assure the people of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight that an assessment of potential risks has taken place and is informing the approach to joined up emergency planning both locally, at a regional and national level. Further information on the risks identified can be found at www.ukresilience.info

The inclusion of a hazard/threat in the Community Risk Register does not mean that the Local Resilience Forum believes the risk will materialise, or that if it were to do so, it would be at the scale described. The outcome descriptions are the maximum plausible worse case assumptions upon which the impact assessments are based. The likelihood assessments relate to the probability of the hazard occurring over a five year period.

The risk assessments included in the register only cover non-malicious incidents (referred to as hazards) rather than malicious incidents such as terrorist attack (referred to as threats). This does not mean that we are not considering threats within our risk assessment work, but given the sensitivity of the information supporting these risk assessments, specific details (beyond that included) will not be made available via the risk register.

The individual risk assessments are subject to regular review to take account of any changes to the risk, as a result the Community Risk Register will updated accordingly.

(Extract from hantsweb, the website of Hampshire County Council, http://www.hants.gov.uk)

View the Community Risk Register at the Hampshire County Council website...