Local & National Risk Registers

The Civil Contingencies Act (CCA) 2004 places a legal duty on responders to carry out risk assessments and maintain them in a Community Risk Register. Risks in this context are those that could result in a major emergency.

The local Community Risk Register (CRR) is an assessment of the risks within a Local Resilience area agreed by the Local Resilience Forum (LRF) as a basis for supporting the preparation of emergency plans. The following document is the CRR for the Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland LRF.

LLR LRF Community Risk Register - top 10 risks (PDF)

Alongside the local CRR, the Government has recently published a National Risk Register which sets out our assessment of the likelihood and potential impact of a range of different risks that may directly affect the UK.

For further information see the Cabinet Office website.

Risk Categories

Click on the following categories to see further information.

RISK CATEGORY : Terrorism »
On-going assessments are made regarding acts of terrorism based on intelligence reports and global events.
RISK CATEGORY : Severe Weather »
Assessments are made based on forecasted weather patterns and previous experience of weather related events.
RISK CATEGORY : Fire »
Property and Vehicle Fires - The Fire & Rescue Service provide valuable data relating to these events which is used in assessing current risk profiles.
RISK CATEGORY : Industrial Incident/Environmental Pollution »
Fire, explosions or contamination at various sites. Detailed knowledge of industrical sites within our local area is used to determine our response to these types of events.
RISK CATEGORY : Structural Hazards »
Building collapse - Specialist Urban Search & Rescue Teams are available within our local area, and their knowledge has been used to determine our response to structural collapse.
RISK CATEGORY : Utilities Failure »
Failure of utilities eg. electricity etc - Assessments have been made regarding the impact to the local community following the failure of any of our utility suppliers.
RISK CATEGORY : Transport Incident »
Aviation, Rail and Road - a wide range of knowledge and experience exists in relation to these types of incidents, which has been used in the assessment of risk to the community.
RISK CATEGORY : Human Health »
Specialist medical and community health advice has been used to determine our response to large scale human health events.
RISK CATEGORY : Animal Diseases »
Specialist knowledge and our experiences of previous outbreaks have helped shape our assessment of issues surrounding animal diseases.
RISK CATEGORY : Plant/Crop disease »
Plant or pest infestation. Expert help from the farming community has been used in assessing the risk to the local community from this type of event.
RISK CATEGORY : Other Crime »
A comprehensive asessment has been made in relation to all types of potential criminal events within our local community.
RISK CATEGORY : Business Disruption »
A thorough assessment has been made regarding the impact both locally and regionally in relation to disruption to local businesses and the possible failure to deliver their services to the community.
RISK CATEGORY : Public Disorder »
Full account has been taken in this assesment of the experiences of other areas of the country regarding the impact of public disorder situations.
RISK CATEGORY : Public Events »
A comprehensive multi-agency assessment is carried out before any large scale public event held within our local area, which enables effective contingency plans to be put into place.
RISK CATEGORY : International Crisis/Event »
War, oil / gas supply - Full regard has been taken about the impact of any international event / crisis which has the potential to threaten our energy supplies at local level.
RISK CATEGORY : Other »
Some events have been assessed which do not easily fit into the categories contained within the Community Risk Register, but are considered important enough to be identified as potential risks/ threats.