C8.2.2 Decide what may be harmed and how
You should determine what the impact would be of the environmental hazard should the risk become a reality. For example, whether a watercourse would be polluted, environmental legislation would be breached or unwanted air emissions released.
Example receptors:
- Specially protected parts of the environment (e.g. RAMSAR, SAC, SPA, SSSI, LNR)
- Single houses or groups of houses (estates, villages etc)
- Schools, hospitals, factories, shops etc.
- Footpaths, recreation areas such as playing fields and playgrounds
- Fields and allotments used for growing food
- Rivers and streams
- Ancient woodland
- Historic buildings, listed buildings, archaeological sites
- Water abstraction points
- The sensitivity of the groundwater e.g. source protection zones
- Other nearby industry e.g. Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) sites
- Sensitive land uses – e.g. commercial fish farms, farmland
- Coastal/estuarine areas