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Appendix B(5): Community / Social Severity  

 

Level 

Severity 

Considerations and risk controls 

Catastrophic

 

Extensive damage to properties and built 
environment in affected area requiring 
major demolition. General and widespread 
displacement of more than 500 people for 
prolonged duration and extensive personal 
support required.  Serious damage to 
infrastructure causing significant disruption 
to or loss of key services for prolonged 
period.  Community unable to function 
without significant support. 

Most responders will be unfamiliar 
with the site and / or the complex 
and / or unique risk controls in 
addition to the standard operating 
procedures and / or generic risk 
assessments required to prevent 
exposure. 

Significant

 

Significant damage that requires support 
for local responders with external 
resources.   
100 – 500 people in danger and displaced 
for longer than one week. Local responders 
require external resources to deliver 
personal support.  Significant impact on 
and possible breakdown of delivery of 
some local community services. 

Most responders will be familiar with 
the site and / or the complex and / or 
unique risk controls required in 
addition to the standard operating 
procedures and / or generic risk 
assessments required to prevent 
exposure. 

Moderate

 

Damage that is confined to a specific 
location, or a number of locations but 
requires additional resources, localised 
disruption of <100 people for 1 – 3 days. 
Localised disruption to infrastructure and 
community services. 

Mainly standard operating 
procedures and / or generic risk 
assessments with the possibility of 
some additional risk controls with 
which most responders will be 
familiar to prevent exposure. 

Minor

 

Minor damage to properties, minor 
displacement of a small number of people 
for < 24hours and minor personal support 
required.  Minor localised disruption to 
community services or infrastructure for 
<24hours. 

Most responders will be familiar with 
the standard operating procedures 
and / or generic risk assessments 
required to prevent exposure. 

Insignificant 

Insignificant number of persons displaced 
and insignificant personal support required, 
insignificant disruption to community 
services including transport services and 
infrastructure. 

 

Most responders will be familiar with 
the standard operating procedures 
and / or generic risk assessments 
required to prevent exposure

 

 

 

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Appendix B(6): Heritage severity  

 

Level

 

Severity

 

Considerations and risk controls

 

Catastrophic

 

Where there is a potential total loss / 
damage of a historical structure and / or 
content(s) or site of special scientific 
interest with national significance that 
can have a serious economic and/or 
social impact on the community either 
locally, regionally, nationally or in some 
cases internationally.  With some long 
term potential permanent impact and 
loss with extensive clean up and 
recovery costs.  

Most responders will be unfamiliar 
with the site and / or the complex 
and / or unique risk controls in 
addition to the standard operating 
procedures and / or generic risk 
assessments and salvage 
arrangements required to prevent 
exposure. 

Significant

 

Where there is a potential of a significant 
loss / damage of an historical structure 
and/or content(s) or site of special 
scientific interest with national 
significance that can have a significant 
economic and/or social impact on the 
community either locally, regionally, 
nationally or in some cases 
internationally.  With significant potential 
long term impact and loss with extensive 
clean up and recovery costs. 

Most responders will be familiar with 
the site and / or the complex and / or 
unique risk controls required in 
addition to the standard operating 
procedures and / or generic risk 
assessments and salvage 
arrangements required to prevent 
exposure. 

Moderate

 

Where there is a potential of limited loss 
of a historical structure and / or 
content(s) or site of special scientific 
interest with national significance that 
can have an economic and/or social 
impact on the community either locally, 
regionally, or in some cases nationally. 
With a potential long term impact and 
loss with limited clean up and recovery 
costs. 

Mainly standard operating 
procedures and / or generic risk 
assessments and salvage 
arrangements with the possibility of 
some additional risk controls with 
which most responders will be 
familiar to prevent exposure. 

Minor

 

Where there is a potential of loss to part 
of a historical structure and/or content(s) 
or site of special scientific interest with 
national significance that can have an 
economic and/or social impact on the 
community either locally, regionally, or in 
some cases nationally.  With a potential 
short term impact and loss with small 
clean up and recovery costs. 

Most responders will be familiar with 
the standard operating procedures 
and / or generic risk assessments 
and salvage arrangements required 
to prevent exposure. 

 

 

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Level

 

Severity

 

Considerations and risk controls

 

Insignificant

 

Insignificant potential impact on structure 
and content(s) or site of special scientific 
interest with national significance and 
therefore no impact on the community. 

 

Most responders will be familiar with 
the standard operating procedures 
and / or generic risk assessments 
and salvage arrangements required 
to prevent exposure. 

 

 

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Appendix B(7): Economic and other severity  

 

Level

 

Severity

 

Considerations and risk controls

 

Catastrophic

 

Serious impact on the local and 
regional economy, business 
environment and infrastructure with 
some serious long term potentially 
permanent loss of production with 
some structural change. Extensive 
clean up and recovery costs. 

Most responders will be unfamiliar with 
the site and / or the complex and / or 
unique risk controls in addition to the 
standard operating procedures and / or 
generic risk assessments required to 
prevent exposure. 

Significant

 

Significant impact on local economy, 
business environment and 
infrastructure with medium term loss 
of production. Significant extra clean 
up and recovery costs. 

Most responders will be familiar with the 
site and / or the complex and / or 
unique risk controls required in addition 
to the standard operating procedures 
and / or generic risk assessments 
required to prevent exposure. 

Moderate

 

Limited impact on local economy, 
business environment and 
infrastructure with some short term 
loss of production with possible 
additional clean up costs. 

Mainly standard operating procedures 
and / or generic risk assessments with 
the possibility of some additional risk 
controls with which most responders will 
be familiar to prevent exposure. 

Minor

 

Negligible impact on local economy, 
business environment and 
infrastructure and costs easily 
absorbed. 

Most responders will be familiar with the 
standard operating procedures and / or 
generic risk assessments required to 
prevent exposure. 

Insignificant

 

Insignificant impact on local economy, 
business environment and 
infrastructure. 

Most responders will be familiar with the 
standard operating procedures and / or 
generic risk assessments required to 
prevent exposure. 

 

 

 

 

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Appendix B(8) PORIS – Comparison of levels of risk 

 

EXAMPLE 

 

Site / Property General Details Sheet 1 of 2 

Site / Property Name or Number 

Maxwell Furniture Sales 

Also known as 

 

N/A 

Street / Road 

Brown Street 

Town 

Westwell 

County 

Westington 

Post Code 

W11 T12 

Fire Safety System Number 

W123456 

UPRN 

101035021678 

Station Area 

W12 

Number of significant Buildings 

Incident Type 

Fire 

Inspecting Officers Name 

Stn Manager Smith 

Inspecting Officer ID 

6674 

 

 

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Risk 

Groups 

FF 

Ind/Soc 

Env 

Com 

Her 

Eco 

 

Significant or 

Catastrophic 

Impact Identified 

9

 

 

 

 

 

9

 

25 

25 

25 

25 

25 

25 

Very High 

20 

20 

20 

20 

20 

20 

16 

16 

16 

16 

16 

16 

15 

15 

15 

15 

15 

15 

High 

12 

12 

12 

12 

12 

12 

10 

10 

10 

10 

10 

10 

Medium 

Low 

Very Low 

 
This pro-forma (1 of 2) provides an illustration of how the risk scores may be recorded against 
each Risk Group where more than one incident type is considered.  The resulting risk scores 
for each of the incident types can then be used for prioritising workload and assessing the risk 
management process. 

 

EXAMPLE

 

 

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EXAMPLE

 

Site / Property General Details 

Sheet 2 of 2 

Site / Property Name or Number 

Maxwell Furniture Sales 

Also known as 

 

N/A 

Street / Road 

Brown Street 

Town 

Westwell 

County 

Westington 

Post Code 

W11 T12 

Fire Safety System Number 

W123456 

UPRN 

101035021678 

Station Area 

W12 

Number of significant Buildings 

Incident Type 

Flooding 

Inspecting Officers Name 

Stn Manager Smith 

Inspecting Officer ID 

6674 

 

 

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Risk 

 Groups 

FF 

Ind/Soc 

Env 

Com 

Her 

Eco 

 

Significant or 

Catastrophic 

Impact Identified 

9

 

 

9

 

 

 

 

25 

25 

25 

25 

25 

25 

Very High 

20 

20 

20 

20 

20 

20 

16 

16 

16 

16 

16 

16 

15 

15 

15 

15 

15 

15 

High 

12 

12 

12 

12 

12 

12 

10 

10 

10 

10 

10 

10 

Medium 

Low 

Very Low 

 
This pro-forma (2 of 2) provides an illustration of how the risk scores may be recorded against 
each Risk Group where more than one incident type is considered.  The resulting risk scores 
for each of the incident types can then be used for prioritising workload and assessing the risk 
management process. 
 
 

EXAMPLE

 

 

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A blank pro-forma is shown below: 
 

Site / Property General Details 

Sheet  of  

Site / Property Name or Number 

 

Also known as 

 

 

Street / Road 

 

Town 

 

County 

 

Post Code 

 

Fire Safety System Number 

 

UPRN 

 

Station Area 

 

Number of significant Buildings 

 

Incident Type 

 

Inspecting Officers Name 

 

Inspecting Officer ID 

 

 

 

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Risk Groups 

FF 

Ind/Soc

Env 

Com 

Her 

Eco 

 

Significant or 

Catastrophic Impact 

Identified 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25 

25 

25 

25 

25 

25 

Very High 

20 

20 

20 

20 

20 

20 

16 

16 

16 

16 

16 

16 

15 

15 

15 

15 

15 

15 

High 

12 

12 

12 

12 

12 

12 

10 

10 

10 

10 

10 

10 

Medium 

Low 

Very Low 

 

 

 

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Appendix C:  
Data capture fields 

 

Data capture pro-forma 
 

 

Site / Property general details 

Site / Property name or number 

           

 
 

Also known as 

 

           

 
 

Street / Road 

           

Town 

           

County 

           

Post code 

           

Fire Safety System Number 

           

UPRN 

           

Fire and Rescue Service 

           

Station area 

           

Number of significant buildings 

           

Registered address of owner 

           

 
 

Owner post code 

           

Owner phone No. 

           

 

 

 

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Responsible Person contact details

 

Name 

           

Phone No. 

           

Email 

           

Position 

           

 

Mobile 

           

 
 

Use of the site / Premises (see use codes guide) 

Use code 

           

Note 

           

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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Site / Building size and status 

 

Year of construction 

           

Building / Site close to others 

           

Building / Site in rural location 

           

Building size category 

 

Select (X)

 

Extremely small 

 

 

 

 

Very small   

 

 

 

 

Small   

 

 

 

 

 

Medium 

 

 

 

 

 

Large   

 

 

 

 

 

Very large 

 

 

 

 

 

Extremely large 

 

 

 

 

Number of floors above ground  

Select (X)

 

0 – 2   

 

 

 

 

 

3 – 5   

 

 

 

 

 

6 – 8   

 

 

 

 

 

9 – 15  

 

 

 

 

 

>15   

 

 

 

 

 

Number of floors below ground 

Total number of floors 

           

Mezzanine Floors (Location) 

           

Building Length 

           

Building Depth 

           

Total building floor area   

 

Select (X)

 

< 9,000m² 

 

 

 

 

 

9,000m² - 18,000m²  

 

 

 

>18,000m²   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Building status 

 

 

 

Select (X)

 

Under construction   

 

 

 

Occupied 

 

 

 

 

 

Empty  

 

 

 

 

 

Derelict 

 

 

 

 

 

Under renovation   

 

 

 

Being demolished   

 

 

 

Temporary   

 

 

 

 

 

Site categorisation   

 

Select (X)

 

COMAH 

 

 

 

 

 

NAMOS 

 

 

 

 

 

DSEAR 

 

 

 

 

 

BASIS  

 

 

 

 

 

DSHAR 

 

 

 

 

 

NIHWS 

 

 

 

 

 

CHIP   

 

 

 

 

 

NIHHS 

 

 

 

 

 

MSER  

 

 

 

 

 

Pipeline regulations  

 

 

 

Other (Specify) 

           

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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Occupancy 

Number of occupants 

 

           

List names of occupier(s) 

           

 
 
 
 
 

Number of occupants week day 

00:00 – 04:00 

           

04:00 – 08:00 

           

08:00 – 12:00 

           

12:00 – 16:00 

           

16:00 – 20:00 

           

20:00 – 24:00 

           

Number of occupants weekend 

00:00 – 04:00 

           

04:00 – 08:00 

           

08:00 – 12:00 

           

12:00 – 16:00 

           

16:00 – 20:00 

           

20:00 – 24:00 

           

 

 

 

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Occupancy risks   

Select (X) 

Details

 

Unfamiliar with building  
and exit routes 

 

 

 

 

           

Restricted mobility   

 

 

           

Limited comprehension 

 

 

           

Oxygen therapy in use 

 

 

           

Sleeping risk  

 

 

 

           

Potential for physical violence 

 

           

Potential for verbal abuse   

 

           

Arrangements for assistance  
in evacuation  

 

 

 

 

           

Occupant’s unconscious  
through drugs 

 

 

 

 

           

May be occasional major  
life risk 

 

 

 

 

 

           

Give details of temporary  
life risk 

 

 

 

 

 

           

Regular evacuation drills   

 

           

Training records are  
up to date 

 

 

 

 

 

           

Children aged 6 and below  

 

           

 
 

Location of occupants 

Select (X) 

Details

 

Single compartment  

 

 

           

Multi compartment   

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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