Risk Assessment
It is important for businesses to receive meaningful feedback from regulators on their compliance performance and how to improve it. A common system will help businesses to understand the assessment criteria, and how reducing the levels of risk can result in less frequent or less burdensome interventions.
LBRO has agreed an approach with the world class coalition to integrate the diverse risk assessment models in use across local regulation. This simplified and transparent system will provide a foundation for better information sharing, which will improve the robustness of the evidence available to support the assessment and regulatory response. It will also make the risk assessment process more transparent for the businesses involved. The approach will reduce duplication, give the flexibility to work across current regulatory boundaries, and increase impact by focusing scarce regulatory resource where it is most needed. The system is currently being piloted with the intention of preparing it for launch in 2011.
The following papers have been produced to date:
A Common Approach to Risk Assessment - Draft Proposals
A Common Approach to Risk Assessment - Final Proposals
Request for Help: Case Studies on Incidents of Non-compliance
As part of our work with local authorities and national regulators on common approaches to risk, LBRO is looking at how regulators can share risk-based intelligence to identify significant non-compliance within a business.
We want to build 20 case studies from across England and Wales which show how adopting a similar approach to risk assessment in cases of non-compliance might help diverse regulators share information.
We are asking for your assistance in identifying suitable examples for the research. The retrospective case studies will explore opportunities for intelligence sharing between regulators prior to the non-compliance being identified, and whether poor performance by a business in one regulated area is reflected in other regulated areas.
We are particularly interested in examples where a range of regulators cover the premises and for which there is a relatively high frequency of intervention / inspection. This includes food retail and food manufacturing, catering, hotels/hostels, hospitals, care homes and nursing homes, vehicle repair, waste management, pubs, cinemas / theatres / nightclubs, retail of consumer goods and age restricted products, and dry cleaners.
Your help in developing this important piece of research would be much appreciated. Further project details follow. If you have any questions or wish to suggest a potential case study, please contact Erica Butler on 0121 226 4037 or Erica.butler@lbro.org.uk.
