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Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK

• Updated: 21 February 2013

Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.

• Updated: 31 March 2025

• Updated: 26 January 2023

Discover more about airborne allergens, air quality, water quality and other environmental exposures such as chemicals and radiation. These pages are under development and some topics are not yet available.

• Updated: 7 August 2025

The Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) assesses and advises on mutagenic risks to humans. COM is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care and the...

• Updated: 15 April 2021

How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.

• Updated: 3 December 2025

We’re responsible for regulating environmental and decommissioning activity for offshore oil and gas operations, including carbon capture and storage operations, on the UK continental shelf. OPRED is part of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero .

• Updated: 22 January 2024

Resources for the management of chemical, radiation and biological incidents, including UK recovery handbooks.

• Updated: 26 May 2016

Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.

• Updated: 22 July 2019

Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.

• Updated: 11 February 2016