Community Risk Register
What is the Community Risk Register?
The Sussex Resilience Forum publish a Community Risk Register (CRR) as a requirement of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. This is to reassure our community that an assessment of potential risks has been undertaken. This informs the approach to co-ordinated emergency planning locally (Sussex), regionally (South East England), and nationally. Once the initial risk assessment has been conducted and the risk rating produced, via an electronic format, an ongoing review of all existing controls in place to reduce each risk is carried out. This produces a priority level that the SRF considers on each risk and acts as an additional indicator for those tasked with planning around the risks.
An Illustration of the High Consequence Risks Facing the United Kingdom |
Scope of the CRR
The CRR does not assess every single risk. It assesses the risks that are most likely to happen and the impact these would have across the county.
The risk assessments included in the register only cover non-malicious events (i.e. hazards) rather than threats (i.e. terrorist incidents). Specific information about threats is not detailed in a CRR.
The CRR focuses on serious emergencies that are defined as an
emergency:
• an event or situation which threatens serious damage to human
welfare in a place in the United Kingdom
• an event or situation which threatens serious damage to the
environment of a place in the United Kingdom
• war or terrorism which threatens serious damage to the security
of the United Kingdom.