Community Risks

On behalf of the Cumbria Resilience Forum, may we take this opportunity to introduce the Cumbria Community Risk Register to you.

 The need for the Register has arisen from the recent introduction of the Civil Contingencies Act, which requires emergency responders to assess the risk of emergencies occurring, and to use those assessments to inform their emergency planning and business continuity planning processes.

The Register has been compiled using nationally prescribed templates, historical evidence, and input from all the partners listed below as well as Central Government departments to form a list of potential hazards, their likelihood, and the risks associated with them. A simple scoring system has been used to rank the various hazards, so that the impact to our local communities could be assessed using health, social, economic, and environmental aspects. This results in a risk rating which is a product of likelihood and impact. You will find documents on the scoring scales and criteria elsewhere on this web site. Other supporting material is available at http://www.ukresilience.gov.uk/

The inclusion of these hazards or outcome descriptions does not mean the Resilience Forum believes the hazard will materialise, or if it were to do so it would be at that scale. The likelihood assessments relate to the hazard occurring over a five-year period at the scale reflected in the outcome description.

The attached risk assessments only cover non-malicious events (hazards) rather than threats (deliberate events). This does not mean we are not considering threats within our risk assessment work, but given the sensitivity of the information supporting these assessments, specific details will not be made available on this website. You can rest assured that we are working with colleagues to ensure that planning, training and exercising continues to include malicious threats.

The Cumbria Resilience Forum will ensure that the register is maintained, and that the risk ratings derived from the register are used to prioritise the work that is done locally to plan, train, and exercise the response to a particular incident.

Locally, the Cumbria Resilience Forum has been working to have the register in place by the specified date of 15^{th November 2005.}