COMAH & hazardous industry

COMAH emergency plan test evidence for operators

A regulation 15 plan test your Competent Authority inspector can read, repeated as often as you need.

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The evidence problem

COMAH regulation 15 requires the on-site emergency plan to be tested at least every three years, and the Competent Authority expects the test to exercise the people who would run the response, not only the procedures. An inspection will ask which incident controllers have exercised their role, when, and what was found.

A full-scale test means stopping or slowing production, pulling shift teams together and bringing in the emergency services. Most sites manage one such test per plan cycle, which leaves most incident controllers with no personal record of having exercised the plan.

Findings from a test have to be recorded and acted on. If the record is a slide deck and a sign-in sheet, the inspector's next question is what each controller actually did.

Also in scope

  • Your site-specific on-site emergency plan and incident controller roles

What Maitris gives you

  • Test records mapped to COMAH regulations 12 to 15
  • Per-role evidence for each on-site incident controller and site main controller
  • Repeatable at any frequency, without stopping the plant

The AI generates the scenario and compiles the evidence. Your named assessor decides competence.

A line from the pack

Site incident controller initiated the on-site plan, confirmed the muster and briefed the fire and rescue service incident commander on the inventory at risk. Plan section exercised: initial response and external liaison. Finding: shelter-in-place message delayed by six minutes; action raised.

Roleplays ready for COMAH & hazardous industry

  • COMAH 2015 (Control of Major Accident Hazards)

    HSE / EA / SEPA / NRW (Competent Authority) · UK

    Training or exercising duty
    COMAH regs 12–14 (on-site & off-site emergency plans), reg 15 (review & test at least every 3 years)
    Evidence expected
    Plan test reports, exercise records, SMS documentation
    Recurrence
    Test ≥ every 3 years
    Duty holder
    Organisation (operator) + LA (off-site plans)

  • Seveso III Directive 2012/18/EU

    National authorities (DREAL in FR) · EU

    Training or exercising duty
    Art 12 (emergency plans, test ≥ every 3 years)
    Evidence expected
    Plan test reports
    Recurrence
    ≥ every 3 years
    Duty holder
    Organisation (operator) + LA

  • REPPIR 2019 (Radiation Emergency Preparedness & Public Information)

    ONR; HSE; LAs · UK

    Training or exercising duty
    REPPIR reg 12 (review & test of emergency plans), reg 10–11 (plans)
    Evidence expected
    Plan test records, exercise reports
    Recurrence
    Test ≥ every 3 years
    Duty holder
    Organisation (operator) + LA

  • Sector regulators: ONR (nuclear), CAA (aviation), ORR/RAIB (rail), Ofgem/Ofwat licence conditions

    ONR, CAA, ORR, Ofgem, Ofwat · UK

    Training or exercising duty
    SEMD 2022; Nuclear Site Licence Condition 11; CAP 168
    Evidence expected
    Plan test records, licence compliance returns
    Recurrence
    Periodic
    Duty holder
    Organisation (licensee)

  • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 + MHSWR 1999 (regs 8, 13) + Corporate Manslaughter Act 2007

    HSE; local authorities; CPS/Crown Office · UK

    Training or exercising duty
    MHSWR reg 8 (serious & imminent danger procedures), reg 13 (capabilities & training); HSWA s.2(2)(c)
    Evidence expected
    Risk assessments, emergency procedures, training records
    Recurrence
    Ongoing; on change of risk
    Duty holder
    Organisation (employer) + individuals (s.7/37 HSWA)

  • JESIP Joint Doctrine (Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles)

    JESIP Interoperability Board; HMICFRS; NHSE · UK

    Training or exercising duty
    Joint Doctrine 3rd ed. 2021; Manchester Arena Inquiry Vol 2 recs; Grenfell Phase 2 recs
    Evidence expected
    JESIP training completion, refresher, exercise records, JOL
    Recurrence
    Refresher expected (typically annual/biennial per service)
    Duty holder
    Organisation + commanders

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