Development of an easy and flexible risk assessment tool as a part of the planning of environmental inspections linked to European environmental law and the RMCEI (easyTools)

This is a report of “easyTools”. The main objective of this project, executed in 2010 and 2011, was to develop an easy and flexible risk assessment tool as part of the planning of environmental inspections linked to European environmental law (IED and SEVESO) and the RMCEI. The annexes offer supplementary materials like the project's terms of reference for both years, progress reports, and a workshop report. Importantly, Annex 3 provides a detailed report on the questionnaire responses from various IMPEL member countries regarding their current risk assessment practices. This report highlights the diverse criteria and methods employed across Europe, illustrating the need for a more standardized approach.

Projektna skupina pod imenom ‘easyTools’, ki jo je vodila Nemčija, je zbrala informacije o ocenah tveganja, ki se uporabljajo po vsej Evropi. Na podlagi teh informacij je bila razvita in preizkušena nova metodologija, ki temelji na pravilih in se imenuje integrirana metoda ocenjevanja tveganja (IRAM). Knjiga easyTools "Risk Assessment Guidance Book" predstavlja integrirano metodo ocenjevanja tveganja (IRAM), metodologijo, ki temelji na pravilih za ocenjevanje okoljskega tveganja in načrtovanje inšpekcijskih pregledov. IRAM pomaga določiti prednostne naloge inšpekcijskih pregledov na podlagi tveganja, uravnoteženja vpliva in uspešnosti upravljavca2. Za določitev kategorij tveganja in pogostosti inšpekcijskih pregledov uporablja merila vpliva (vpliv na okolje) in merila uspešnosti upravljavca (verjetnost vpliva) skupaj s faktorji tehtanja. Orodje IRAM, ki je na voljo na spletnem mestu IMPEL, podpira to metodologijo in omogoča prilagodljivost za različne inšpekcijske preglede, vključno s tistimi, ki so povezani z direktivo o industrijskih emisijah (IED) in direktivo Seveso III. 

For several years IMPEL worked on the subject of inspection planning in the project Doing the right thing (DTRT). DTRT introduced the environmental inspection cycle. Important steps in that cycle are setting priorities and defining inspection targets and related performance indicators.