Bill Lyons

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• Bill Lyons
• Head of Resilience
• Scottish Environment Protection Agency

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Todays presentationPart 1 Airborne Hazards,
Incident Response System for ScotlandPart 2
Review of Control of Major Accident Hazard
(COMAH) Off site Planning
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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

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Airborne Hazards, Incident Response System for
Scotland

• 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

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Air Quality Major Incident Response System for
England Wales
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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

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Air Quality Cell England and Wales
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Airborne Hazards, Incident Response System for
Scotland

• 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?

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• Airborne Hazards, Incident Response System for
  Scotland

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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

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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

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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

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Airborne Hazards - Incident Response System for
Scotland

• Any questions?

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

• Competent Authority (Scotland)
• Health and Safety Executive
• Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)

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

• Over next 2 years focus on COMAH Offsite plan
• Engagement with Industry, COSLA, individual local
  authorities and Scottish Government

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

• Lord Newtons 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

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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)

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

• Any questions?