NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Bill Lyons Head of Resilience Scottish Environment Protection Agency

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED 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

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED 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

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED 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

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Air Quality Major Incident Response System for England & Wales

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED 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

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Air Quality Cell: England and Wales

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED 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?

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Airborne Hazards, Incident Response System for Scotland

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED 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

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED 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

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED 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

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Airborne Hazards - Incident Response System for Scotland  Any questions?

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Review of Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Off site Planning  Competent Authority (Scotland)  Health and Safety Executive  Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED 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

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Review of Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Off site Planning  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

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Review of Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Off site Planning  Assistance  Seminar  On site plan construction - emergency-planning.pdf  Off site Plan construction - ap.pdf  Promotion of existing guidance  L A guide to the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999 (as amended)

NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED Review of Control of Major Accident Hazard (COMAH) Off site Planning Any questions?