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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have published the results of the Government's consultation on revised policies to address societal risk around major hazard installations.
HSE's advice on planning applications around major hazard installations is currently based on individual risk. Individual Risk is the chance that an individual at a particular location will be harmed by an incident. Societal Risk is the chance of a number of people being harmed by a single incident.
In all, 94 responses to the consultation were received. Respondents were overwhelmingly in favour of societal risk being taken into account both when HSE enforces on-site safety measures, and in the land use planning advice HSE gives to local planning authorities for developments around major hazard sites. Ministers have now agreed that this work will be taken forward.
HSE and other Government Departments will now work together to implement arrangements for societal risk to be incorporated into safety and planning policies. This will include refi nement of the methodology for assessing societal risk, and will also involve workshops on the format of HSE advice to those Local Planning Authorities that have hazardous sites within their area of responsibility. This will establish detailed mechanisms for change, particularly on how HSE's advice on land use planning should be provided.
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