Under the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations 2015, operators are required to demonstrate that all major accident hazards (MAHs) have been identified. MAH identification is commonly carried out against a list of guidewords, or deviations, intended to identify all potential initiators of MAHs at an establishment. Included in these guidewords are often a smaller number of environmental initiators, capturing extremes of temperature and weather. However, assessment is typically conducted on current weather patterns, on equipment often designed to older standards.

In January 2026, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade announced a short review of the administrative challenges that businesses face in complying with H&S and to identify opportunities to reduce the administrative burden, without undermining safety. The full announcement is available here: Business Secretary backs British scaleups with growth package and red tape review. The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have engaged with business organisations, trade associations and businesses as part of the review. CIA is hosting this webinar for DBT and HSE so the chemicals industry can contribute its experience of: • any administrative burdens associated with health and safety compliance, • any sources of H&S information it uses for their compliance, • any additional third-party requirements it encounters in compliance, and • the industry’s application of as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP) principles. The webinar will be held under the Chatham House rule – that is, DBT and HSE will use the information you share in the webinar but it will be anonymous: nothing said may be attributed to any participant individual or organisation.

The incident investigation good practices training will be in the form of a one-day course consisting of presentations, workshop exercises and will provide learners with an understanding of good practices.

With a visual factory an organisation can understand the status of their operations “at a glance”, speeding up problem solving and increasing situational awareness, making for a more productive and safer factory. Managers and team leaders wanting to better understand Visual Factory techniques, how to apply them and make them successful will find this course of interest to them.