The Community Risk Register (CRR) looks at the likelihood and impact of a range of risks to the whole of Hampshire & the Isle of Wight (IoW). The main categories considered are: natural events, human and animal diseases, major accidents and malicious attacks, rather than threats like terrorist incidents.
The CRR assesses only those risks most likely to happen, and the impact they would have across the county. Even within the county, a risk such as coastal flooding can have a very different impact.
If a risk is included in the Community Risk Register, it doesn’t mean it will happen. It means it is known to be a possibility, and organisations have made arrangements to reduce its impact. The register is updated annually.
The CRR was produced by Hampshire & IoW Local Resilience Forum with help from experts and the government’s National Risk Register, which analyses risks to the UK as a whole.