Posted By Bob Youel Yep undertake a general MHSW style risk assessment to see what is your likely loss events & to ID work that may require EA licence's/permissions etc, at the same time undertake an environmental aspect & impact assessment - putting all together will give you a base line Thereafter obtain copies of the various Env laws / guides etc. Evaluate all your info to get your ansewrs & then ask the EA; - I would advise comissioning the services of a competent person; as it is a complicated area and would probably be cheaper and more credible in the long run For a basic office type business the area is easily managed

Posted By Gwahir Hi Jane, I can only assume you do not have an IPPC permit, if this is the case then all you need to report to the EA is any breach to land, air, Water that you have consents for. Water would be with your local water company ours is anglian water and we have a consent to discharge certain substaces to the local river. If it,s to land it could be waste or to air it could be ODS or VOC,s if you need any more advice please feel free to contact me. Graham

Posted By DavidW Jane If you have a permit or an authorisation then you need to check what it allows you to emit and any breaches of this permit will need to be reported. Depending on who issued the permit this could be the local authority or the environment agency. If you have no permit (and don't need a permit) then providing you are not polluting anything there should be no need to report. Pollution of a local river would need reporting to the environment agency whilst pollution of the foul sewer will need to be reported to the water company. However, the best thing as mentioned above is prevention. Identify aspects and impacts using the source, pathway, receptor model. Once you know what you have and what it can pollute you can put in processes/controls to prevent it happening. This will also help identify who you need to report any problems to. If you would like any more detailed help, please let me know. David