Terrorism Risk: Are you meeting your obligations under the current Health and Safety legislation?
In today’s world, the threat of terrorism is seen as a ‘foreseeable risk’, and it is required under the current Health & Safety Act that qualifying businesses take steps to protect themselves, their employees, and their customers.
Current legislation – know your obligations
Employers must assess health and safety risks for employees and non-employees under the current Health and Safety at Work Act. Significant findings must be recorded for any businesses with five or more employees.
Risks that are ‘foreseeable’ and could cause injury or illness must be considered and, where reasonably practicable, mitigated.
32 late-stage terror plots have been foiled by UK security services since 2017
As there have been over 3,000 terror-related deaths in the UK since 1971, and the UK government currently concludes a terrorism attack is ‘likely’, terrorism risk is viewed as a foreseeable risk.
Indeed, the Manchester Arena Inquiry highlights the Health and Safety liability that exists to venue owners and operators in the context of terrorism risk.
The Health and Safety Executive describes Terrorism as a ‘Key Risk’
Read more at HSE. Gov
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The benefits of working with Protect Duty Risk Solutions are twofold:
Firstly: A Risk Assessment is needed – this can be time-consuming and seem complex.
In order to ascertain wether it is reasonably practicable to mitigate terrorism risk to your organisation, some form of documented terrorism risk assessment must be conducted to establish the level of risk, either as a standalone exercise or part of your wider Health and Safety Risk Assessment.
We understand that this can be complex and time-consuming to non-experts – we are here to help.
Secondly: It can be difficult to understand the many complex situations where you may be at risk.
Terrorism Risk is problematic for non-Security experts to derive reliable estimates of probability, impact and vulnerability to specific threat scenarios, therefore experienced and competent security professionals are required to accurately assess terrorism risk.
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