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Fire Risk (Hot Weather) Guidance

As we are now in a period of extreme high temperatures and exceptional fire risk until Tuesday (Fsi - Met Office), UK environmental regulators have asked us to raise the importance of operators being vigilant regarding the potential risk of fire from sites and need for operators to comply with monitoring requirements within their permits.  This is as well as encouraging good house-keeping and practices around storage of waste, flammable materials and potential equipment failure.

The Environment Agency has also pointed towards existing relevant guidance: 

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