The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015

PART 2 External emergency plans

An external emergency plan must include the following information—

(a) the name or position of—

(i) any person authorised to set emergency procedures in motion; and

(ii) any person authorised to take charge of and co-ordinate action outside the establishment;

(b) the arrangements for receiving early warning of incidents, and alert and call-out procedures;

(c) the arrangements for co-ordinating resources necessary to implement the external emergency plan;

(d) the arrangements for providing assistance with mitigatory action within the establishment;

(e) the arrangements for mitigatory action outside the establishment, including responses to major accident scenarios as set out in the safety report and considering possible domino effects, including those having an impact on the environment;

(f) the arrangements for providing the public and any neighbouring establishments or sites that fall outside the scope of these Regulations in accordance with regulation 24 (domino effects and domino groups) with specific information relating to an accident and the behaviour which should be adopted;

(g) the arrangements for the provision of information to the emergency services of other Member States in the event of a major accident with possible trans-boundary consequences.