Environmental Incidents
Environmental Incidents

Environmental incidents can result in environmental damage or can be a non-compliance with legal and BBC requirements. This includes damage to water courses, land and emissions to the air.

 

There are different classifications of environmental incidents as follows:

Environmental incidents must be logged within myRisks - Tools. There is a possibility that an investigation maybe conducted into why the incident occurred resulting in action tracking and the review of risk assessments.

 

Any environmental incident which occurs will draw attention from the enforcement agencies (e.g. Environment Agency (England and Wales), Scottish Environment Protection Agency or the Environment and Heritage Service in Northern Ireland). For this reason all visits must be reported to BBC Safety.