The team responsible for preventing environmental risks in the most dangerous industrial sites in England faces an employment crisis and one of the interior of environmental incidents of non -deterrent.
The main regulations for major accident risk (COMAH) cover 950 of the most dangerous industrial sites in England – from nuclear power plants to chemical manufacturers – at sites like Buncefield Oil Depot near Hemel HEMPSTEAD, where, in 2005, in 2005, The largest explosion occurred at the time of peace in the UK.
The regulations are implemented by the Environment Agency along with the HSE Executive and Safety Executive A report ends By requesting freedom of information, it revealed that the agency was unable to employ employees who needed to monitor sites.
The report stated: “From April 2023 – April 2024, 33 % of the campaigns failed to produce any candidates who meet the examination standards. The latest employment initiative resulted in five positions of six applicants, of whom only two were externally. Only two candidates were appointed.
Over the past two years, 34 jobs have been announced in this field. Despite the extension of the recruitment offers to 75 % of the roles, 13 of the announced jobs have been filled. “
The EA employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the effects of these failures before Environment Agency Have any gaps have been captured by HSE. They said this is important because the latter “does not give a great weight to the environment [it] It should, and thus the Environment Agency need to pay this agenda. “
The insiders said there were examples as EA discovered the environmental incidents late HSE. They said: “Given the seriousness of some of these incidents, the lack of joint information indicates a collapse.”
The internal report shows that there is a general scarcity of individuals in this labor market, which, the organizer, says, led to the “scarcity” of external applicants. It states that the salaries of environmental agencies in the “lower party”, it is not surprising that we receive a low number of external applicants.
The report adds that during the past 12 months, the current employee rotation rate reached 18 %, and the other teams reached 20 %. “This is higher than average average of about 6 % in all roles,” the report notes.
The current employees expressed his frustration, which indicates “low salaries, insufficient bonuses, and the lack of organization for professional development as major factors that affect their decision to leave the organization,” says the report.
Dr. Doug Bar, Director of Policy at Greenpeace The UK said that “disturbing data” on how to apply “a little supervision of sites with flammable and explosive chemicals is just a tip of the iceberg.”
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“The weak agencies that were created to stop the companies on which the United Kingdom relies on vital services is from excessive charging and decomposition. Overcoming implementation is a program for actually radical organization, no one has voted, as the responsibility of the entire sectors – which was once by the elected ministers – leaks through the hard -made cracks in our unreasonable organizations and anxiety.”
Although Donald Trump’s explosive approach to organizing an ax in the United States attracts a lot of attention, this “Blitzkrieg to the organizers is only one way to cancel them, because contracts of neglect and degradation will make them not enable them effectively as it was actually like attracting attention almost.”
“We are working closely with the partners – including the Executive and Safety Executive Director – to ensure the delivery and enforcement of the Commah regulations. This includes ensuring that all operators have intervention plans to prevent major accidents that may affect people and the environment. We also accomplish a number of operating initiatives to improve employee employment and keep them in this field,” said an Environmental Agency spokesman.
