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Use the risk potential assessment form to initiate a project validation review, a project assessment review or an OGC Gateway review.
Organisational definitions of terms concerned with risk and risk-related matters.
How the level of risk posed to the UK is assessed nationally and locally, covering the National Risk Assessment and National Risk Register.
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
A guide to farming risks, potential problems with public safety and how to avoid accidents
How to prepare and what to do if you’re affected by extreme weather and natural hazards while travelling or living abroad.
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment as part of an application for an environmental permit.
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has unveiled the National Risk Register
How we assess issues of potential regulatory concern
This report provides an update on the Defra's Nanotechnology Research Co-ordination Group’s objectives and associated programme of work.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
How investigators and sponsors should manage clinical trials during COVID-19
The guide, toolkit and further information for GB authorities with responsibility for consumer product safety.
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