PART 3 Duty to assess risk of emergency occurring

Provision of information relating to assessment of risk to other responders

18.  A general Category 1 responder must consider whether it is appropriate to provide information about the risk of a particular emergency or an emergency of a particular kind occurring to a Category 1 responder which –

(a) is likely to be seriously obstructed in the performance of its functions if that emergency or an emergency of that particular kind occurred; or

(b) is likely to consider it necessary or desirable to take action to –

(i) prevent that emergency or an emergency of that particular kind;

(ii) reduce, control or mitigate the effects of that emergency or an emergency of that particular kind; or

(iii) otherwise take action in connection with that emergency or an emergency of that particular kind,

and would be unable to take that action without changing the deployment of resources or acquiring additional resources.