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Bill Lyons

Head of Resilience

Scottish Environment Protection Agency


Today’s presentation

Part 1 = Airborne Hazards, Incident Response System for Scotland

Part 2 = Review of Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Off site

Planning


Airborne Hazards, Incident Response System for Scotland

Why I am here? Representative of the Project Board To raise awareness To share information, engage and listen

Background Buncefield - December 2005 Environment Agency Co-ordinated Project Live – April 2010 – Recommendation 21 Gap identified in Scottish capability

Good news story Ministerial agreement Scottish Funding agreed - £1.2m plus £400K over two

years



SEPA – status report Health Protection Scotland & SEPA worked jointly on

submission to Minister for the Environment with assistance from colleagues within Scottish Government (Resilience and Environment)

Minister for the Environment ask SEPA to coordinate this work

SEPA – Project Team Scottish Liaison Group – Health Protection Scotland.

Health Boards, Fire and Rescue Service, Met Office, ACPOS, COSLA, Ambulance Service, FSA, EA and HSL

Second meeting - September No final decisions have yet been made in terms of how

service will look or be delivered in Scotland


Air Quality Major Incident Response System for England &

Wales


Air Quality Major Incident Response

•Buncefield incident 2005

• Incident Response Gap

•Provision of a co-ordinated

system

•EA, HPA, PHW, Met Office,

FSA, LA , HSL

•By April 2010

•Air Quality Cell will interpret

• data for /STAC/SCG


Air Quality Cell: England and Wales

Air Quality Cell

Hand-held instrument monitoring

Real-time monitoring Air

Quality networks

Gold Command

Science and Technical Advice

Cell

Gold Command

Science and Technical Advice

Cell

Air modelling

Health Protection

AgencyContinuous sampling (for lab analysis)



Scotland Gap, Risk, Issues analysis Service levels Location of potentially high risk sites e.g. COMAH Trunk Roads / Rail links Distribution of population Existence of Detection, Identification, Monitoring vehicle

(DIM) Other equipment e.g. – Collaborate or RIMNET or

another? SEPA cannot deliver this on its own Best value / Shared Service / Team Scotland Approach

Availability of scientific staff? Glasgow Scientific Services and City of Edinburgh

Scientific Services?


Airborne Hazards, Incident Response System for

Scotland


Distribution of COMAH Sites in Scotland – Part of Project Risk

Assessment

• Buncefield Type Sites

• Other similar sites

• Location of Field Teams

• Equipment: vans/hand

held meters

• Existing equipment e.g.

•Air Quality Network - LA

• AQC leadership

• Data /incident

management system

• Procedures/training


Options for an Airborne Hazard Incident Response System for

Scotland Multi Agency Group established

Membership – wide Remit - CBRN / HAZMAT? Role – through accredited science

processes deliver high quality data to facilitate public health decision making

Service level – 3 and 6 hrs - Not less than England and Wales

Delivery partners – crucial - dependant upon final agreed option

Processes – will be developed in partnership


Options for an Airborne Hazard Incident Response System for

Scotland Option 1 – Replicate EA Model using

Contractors Option 2 – Develop a new Model using DIM

Capability Option 3 – a mix of 1 & 2 Option 4 - Other suggestions

SEPA is committed to ensuring that all are aware and kept up to date


Airborne Hazards - Incident Response System for Scotland

Any questions?


Review of Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Off site Planning

Competent Authority (Scotland) Health and Safety Executive Scottish Environment

Protection Agency (SEPA)



Over next 2 years focus on COMAH Offsite plan

Engagement with Industry, COSLA, individual local authorities and Scottish Government



Lord Newton’s Recommendations on the emergency preparedness for, response to and recovery from incidents

Review scope to include On site plans and how they dovetail with Off

site Plans Off site Plans Training and Exercising


Review of Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Off site

Planning Assistance

Seminar On site plan construction -

http://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/guidance/on-site-emergency-planning.pdf

Off site Plan construction - http://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/buncefield/routemap.pdf

Promotion of existing guidance L 111 - A guide to the Control of Major Accident

Hazards Regulations 1999 (as amended)


Review of Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Off site

Planning

Any questions?

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