Community Risk Register

The need for a Community Risk Register for Cumbria follows on from the introduction of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, 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 Cumbrian Register has been compiled by Cumbria Resilience Forum using nationally prescribed templates, historical evidence, and input from all relevant partners 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.

Supporting material is available at www.ukresilience.info. 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 Community Risk Register is available at www.cumbriaresilience.info