Risk assessments for your environmental permit
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When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
When you need to do an environmental risk assessment, when the Environment Agency will do it for you, and how to do a risk assessment. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Generic risk assessment for standard rules permits
- Risk assessments for bespoke permits
- When the Environment Agency can do your risk assessment
- Farmers
- Treated sewage effluent or trade discharges
- Human cemeteries
- How to do a risk assessment
- Risks from your site
- Example risks
- Hazard: emissions to air - dust from screening plant 3
- Hazard: pests - flies on farmyard manure could move offsite and affect nearby residents
- Risks from noise and vibration
- Identify risk of accidents
- Identify emissions
- Identify receptors
- Check for protected sites and species
Source and licence
Environment Agency
AttributionEnvironment Agency, ‘Risk assessments for your environmental permit’ (updated 1 December 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026