The Space Industry Regulations 2021

Safety clear zone requirement U.K.

157.—(1) A spaceport licensee must, unless paragraph (2) applies, put in place an appropriate safety clear zone to ensure that the risk to any person from blast overpressure, fragmentation debris, thermal radiation or toxic release is as low as reasonably practicable during any hazardous pre-flight and post-flight operations.

(2) This paragraph applies if the current safety case demonstrates that a safety clear zone is not required for the hazardous pre-flight or post-flight operations.

(3) A spaceport licensee must—

(a) promulgate the times at which a safety clear zone is in place,

(b) promulgate the area that comprises the safety clear zone,

(c) ensure that the safety clear zone is monitored at all times, and

(d) secure that arrangements are in place to ensure that no person is inside the safety clear zone unless the person’s presence there is essential for the carrying out of spaceflight activities or for the performance of duties connected with such activities.

(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1), an appropriate safety clear zone is one which is determined by the assessment made in the spaceport licensee’s current safety case.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 157 in force at 29.7.2021, see reg. 1(1)