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Community Risk Register

The Community Risk Register for Essex

The Community Risk Register for Essex is a living document that details the risks within Essex. A 'risk' for the purpose of the Community Risk Register (CRR) is one that can lead to a major emergency.

The Civil Contingencies Act (2004) places a legal duty on the wide range of responders to carry out risk assessments and maintain them in a Community Risk Register.

The Essex Resilience Forum (ERF) Risk Assessment Working Group has been given the task of compiling the Community Risk Register for Essex. All ERF members are currently carrying out a comprehensive assessment of the risks in Essex.

This Community Risk Register is the first step in the emergency planning process; it ensures that planning and other work is carried out in proportion to the risk. Whilst the requirement to produce a CRR is recent, responders within Essex have always been proactive in identifying risks within Essex and in working to mitigate the effects of the risks should they cause a major emergency.

Prior to the CCA responders were already basing their planning on a variety of planning assumptions and expert advice. The work being done on Risk Assessment is proving that these assumptions were correct and in the main the generic emergency plans already in place should be able to mitigate the effects of an emergency.

The purpose of the Community Risk Register is:
  • To ensure that local responders have an accurate understanding of the risks that they face to provide a sound foundation for planning
  • To provide a work programme and to ensure efficient allocation of resources
  • To enable local responders to assess the adequacy of their plans and identify any gaps there may be
  • To facilitate and encourage multi-agency working which ensures a more comprehensive planning process
  • To provide an accessible overview of the emergency planning context for the public and other interested parties
  • To inform on national and regional risk assessments that support emergency planning and capability development at those levels
© Essex County Council 2005