Public Infrastructure Physical Hazards
Dangerous conditions of public infrastructure (e.g., canal bridge steps) and poor lighting, creating significant safety hazards.
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Committee recommendation
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#4 - 2nd Report - Zero sum game: How the UK can reframe the energy transition
Recent events, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the conflict involving Iran and the cost-of-living crisis, have increased the importance the public places on energy security including the physical security of energy 27 infrastructure which has been raised during the Committee’s inquiry sessions on energy resilience. We welcome the Government’s increasing focus on energy security as a rationale for...
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terms: infrastructure, physical, public
Scottish FAI
69match
Muireann Caitlin McLaughlin
[61] I recommend that in the formulation of appropriate regulations consideration be given to banning the use of looped blind cords at all but not so as to create other, different hazards or to render blinds effectively inoperative. Safety warnings permanently attached to cords along with conspicuous warnings for the purchaser / supplier / fitter; [65] I recommend...
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terms: hazard, public
PFD report
65match
Alexander Hadley
The coroner noted people were unaware of dangerous currents below a waterfall, creating a risk of future deaths. A warning sign is needed to inform people of the waterfall pool's hazardous characteristics.
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Committee recommendation
65match
#16 - Sixteenth Report - Progress in remediating dangerous cladding
Additional costs may also arrive through wider fire safety issues discovered during remediation works and need correction. The National Audit Office found that cladding inspection has revealed other significant flaws in construction and fire safety in many 42 Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, Building Safety Programme: Monthly Data Release – June 2020, 16 July 2020. 43...
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PFD report
63match
Sidney Martin
The coroner noted that the steps from the canal bridge leading to Gas Street in Skipton are in a dangerous condition, further compounded by poor lighting in the bridge area.
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PFD report
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Ryan Pettengell
The coroner noted that six months after safety recommendations were made for a site with a previous drowning, no action had been taken. Public access continues despite closure, and signage prohibiting swimming is either absent or damaged.
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terms: public
PFD report
61match
Jake Johnson
The coroner noted open access to the M56 motorway via steps, damaged boundary fencing nearby, and an absence of warning signs for the public, particularly given a children's play area in the vicinity.
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terms: public
PFD report
61match
Robbie Williamson
The coroner identified the presence of exposed raised pipework, accessible to the public and potentially attached to bridges, which falls under the organisation's responsibility.
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terms: public
PFD report
61match
Fred Hudson
The coroner noted that a disused railway bridge (ABO8) is easily accessible to the public, including children, with no measures in place to prevent access despite its location next to a main road and frequent visits.
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Scottish FAI
61match
Christine Jane Foster
1. that the City of Edinburgh Council carries out an immediate audit of those buildings within the city thought to constitute a risk to public safety, insofar as such audit has not yet commenced, so that existing statutory powers to ensure proper standards of safety can be exercised; and 2.that the Council take appropriate steps to remind those...
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Scottish FAI
61match
Keane Grace Wallis Bennett
All reasonable steps should be taken to reinforce that warning to ensure that measures are taken in both the public and private domain to assess the risk of the continued use of such walls with associated guidance on remedial measures which can be taken to promote safety and stability which failing safe and effective removal of such walls...
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Scottish FAI
60match
Joy Paula Robson, John Leonard Stern, Elizabeth Allan, Iain John Provan
A. The organisers of the Snowman Rally and generally the organisers of rallies with forest stages, should in all of their pre-event publicity ensure that potential spectators are fully and properly advised of the geography of more remote locations, are clearly directed to safe viewing areas, and are actively discouraged from entering potentially difficult or dangerous viewing locations....
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PFD report
57match
Matthew Thomas Hamilton
The absence of a barrier at the end of the footpath, combined with a narrow pavement and restricted visibility from tall fencing and shrubbery, creates a hazard for children emerging onto the road.
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terms: hazard
PFD report
57match
Sopefoluwa Peters
Concerns were raised about steep, poorly illuminated steps lacking a handrail, making them difficult to negotiate. Additionally, a low riverside wall opposite the steps was noted as an insufficient safety barrier.
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PFD report
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Sophie Allen
The coroner raised concerns about the ongoing danger of looped blind cords to young children, emphasising the risk posed by millions of blinds already installed in homes. There is a need for extended public awareness campaigns for parents, grandparents, and carers.
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terms: public
PFD report
57match
Charles Hardiman
The coroner noted concerns regarding a wind tunnel effect, created by open front and back doors of the Public House, which caused the back door to move suddenly and forcibly, resulting in an accident.
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PFD report
57match
Ahmad Khan
The coroner noted the perimeter wall's low height (3 feet) and the presence of a crash-protective barrier acting as a step, making it easy for individuals to gain access to the top of the wall, creating a dangerous situation.
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PFD report
57match
Gary Daltry
The coroner noted an unmitigated tripping hazard at the location, which could lead to further falls and injuries, risking future deaths.
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terms: hazard
PFD report
57match
Isaac Nash
The coroner noted that the river estuary part of Aberffraw beach can be subject to very strong currents, of which the public are unaware without local knowledge. The report suggests erecting signs to warn the public of this potential danger.
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PFD report
57match
Jordan Roberts
The coroner noted that existing warning signs about a particularly deep pool and strong currents in the River Wear were inadequate and not visible from both riverbanks, raising concerns about public awareness of the dangers.
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PFD report
57match
Adam Connelly
The coroner noted that the height of the walls of the steps accessing footbridge 57 allowed easy access to the railway tracks, creating a risk of future fatalities at this location.
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Committee recommendation
57match
#90 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
Dr Willett told us that international collaboration was “critical” to respond to the threat of maritime sabotage and the “one thing that potential adversaries of the West do not have”. 109 Dr Willett also emphasised the importance of effective collaboration between governments and industry, noting that private companies have extensive underwater surveillance capabilities. The Norwegian oil and gas...
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
57match
#88 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
On 18 May 2023, the UK and Norway agreed to develop a strategic partnership “to counter shared threats in the undersea domain” including threats to undersea infrastructure. Norway has already stepped up surveillance in the North Sea in response to undersea threats. 104 We heard that the UK has co-operated with Norway on the inspection of all its...
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
57match
#77 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
In 2017, then-Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart (now Lord) Peach stated that Russia’s unconventional warfare capabilities were creating “a new risk to our prosperity and way of life” through the potential exploitation of “the vulnerability of the cables that criss-cross the seabed”. 90 In May 2023, David Cattler, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Intelligence...
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
57match
#31 - 1st Report - Long-duration energy storage: get on with it
The Government should work with UKRI to commission research into the safety aspects of hydrogen storage and transportation, as well as the public acceptability of hydrogen transport and storage facilities.
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terms: public
Committee recommendation
57match
#9 - Fifteenth Report - Improving the prison estate
Lack of investment has also resulted in severe maintenance backlogs within the prison estate. As at April 2019, HMPPS had around 63,200 outstanding maintenance jobs. HMPPS also estimated that it would cost £916 million to address its backlog of major capital works. It forecasts that it will need to spend £194 million each year over the next 25...
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Committee recommendation
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#18 - Sixteenth Report - Progress in remediating dangerous cladding
Leaseholders in blocks with dangerous cladding have had their properties valued nil, making it impossible for them to sell or remortgage. This issue was raised with us many times in written evidence from across the sector and confidentially from residents.54 It is unacceptable that leaseholders are in effect ‘mortgage prisoners’, through no fault of their own. The Department...
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Committee recommendation
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#14 - Sixteenth Report - Progress in remediating dangerous cladding
Living in unsafe buildings has clearly impacted residents’ mental well-being. According to a survey undertaken by UK Cladding Action Group, of the 550 residents that took part, nine out of ten leaseholders in flats with unsafe cladding say their mental health has deteriorated as a direct result.44 We received written evidence confidentially from residents of affected buildings which...
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PFD report
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Elliott Bignall
The coroner noted poor lighting and inadequate signage at the Langmeads foot crossing. These issues increase the risk to pedestrians, especially those distracted by headphones or phones, who may not perceive approaching high-speed trains.
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Committee recommendation
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#14 - 11th Report - Toward a new doctrine for economic security
The UK’s existing critical national infrastructure is vulnerable to a range of threats, from extreme weather to cyber-attacks. In expanding and renewing that infrastructure in response to a growing population and the net zero transition, the UK may be forced to re-evaluate the trade off between on the one hand, lower cost technology and investment from China, and...
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
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#12 - 11th Report - Toward a new doctrine for economic security
Maritime infrastructure, together with the UK’s telecommunications and energy systems, underpin these supply chains. The events of recent years, notably Houthi attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, have demonstrated the continuing centrality of maritime security to the UK economy. Increasing global instability means maritime security is more important than ever. (Conclusion, Paragraph 47)
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
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#45 - 1st Report - New Towns: Commit and Build
There should not be competition between data centres and new towns. This reflects decades of underinvestment in critical utilities infrastructure, which has left us unable to effectively advance projects which would support economic growth and job creation. Utilities and resilience
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
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#121 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
Close co-operation between the state and the private sector, which operates most subsea cables and pipelines, is key to deterring threats to critical infrastructure. The UK Government should establish partnerships for working with businesses to combat threats to critical infrastructure.
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
53match
#92 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
The Tony Blair Institute told us that state collaboration with major tech companies would be key for internet resilience in the Arctic and beyond. They recommended that the UK should support investment in alternative Arctic infrastructure. The UK could also take the lead in developing agreement on norms and regulations governing subsea infrastructure in the Arctic. 112 Finland...
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
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#89 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
A range of measures can be taken to deter threats to critical infrastructure, depending on the type of asset used. Dr Kaushal highlighted that GUGI possessed a limited number of specialised assets able to operate at extreme depths. GUGI also performs a range of other tasks, including laying undersea sensors for the Harmony networks, which protect its nuclear-powered...
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
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#87 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
The UK has invested in new capabilities to manage the threat to seabed infrastructure, including two new Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance (MROS) vessels operated by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. These act as ‘motherships’ for a range of remotely operated and autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles for underwater surveillance and seabed warfare. 102 The first MROS, RFA Proteus, entered service in...
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
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#85 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
In addition, Dr Lee Willett noted that it can be difficult for states to respond rapidly to sub-threshold threats to critical infrastructure because cables and pipelines are typically privately owned and pass through many different legal jurisdictions. 100
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Committee recommendation
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#81 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
Russian naval intelligence operates surface vessels that can be used for maritime sabotage, such as the Admiral Vladimirsky , which is officially classed as an oceanographic research vessel. Russian naval intelligence also uses Russian civilian ships, including fishing trawlers, to survey and potentially attack infrastructure in shallower waters, such as in areas of the North Sea. 96
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
53match
#78 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
There have been several unattributed incidences of damage to subsea infrastructure in the Arctic. In November 2021, the Lofoten-Vesterålen Ocean observatory, an underwater facility in northern Norway, was put out of service after more than 4.3km of its specially designed fibre optic and electric cables were cut. 92 In January 2022, one of two subsea data cables connecting...
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
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#76 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
Russia has developed a range of capabilities to sabotage and disrupt critical infrastructure, including undersea data cables in the Arctic and further afield. The specialised capabilities for deep-sea maritime sabotage are based on the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic. 89
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
53match
#75 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
Mathieu Boulègue told the Committee that the track record of recent sub-threshold incidents pointed to the fact that Russia is willing to take more risks and accept higher costs to put pressure on its neighbours, including in the European Arctic. 86 In their written evidence, the RAND Corporation noted that sub-threshold and subversive activities directed at the UK’s...
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
53match
#5 - 1st Report - Our friends in the North: UK strategy towards the Arctic
Close co-operation between the state and the private sector, which operates most subsea cables and pipelines, is key to deterring threats to critical infrastructure. The UK Government should establish partnerships for working with businesses to combat threats to critical infrastructure.
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
53match
#24 - 1st Report - Long-duration energy storage: get on with it
The Government needs to clarify the role it sees for hydrogen on the future energy system assuming its target is met, with an indication of how the clean hydrogen produced in 2030 will be used. It should bring forward the decision on whether hydrogen will be used in domestic heating from 2026—we advise against it. Hydrogen use should...
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terms: infrastructure
Committee recommendation
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#5 - 5th Report - MoD follow-up Spring 2026
The Department is placing unrealistic expectations on how soldiers operate Ajax vehicles safely when it has still not resolved the underlying noise and vibration issues. In November 2025 Exercise TITAN STORM was stopped when 33 soldiers reported symptoms from noise and vibration after operating in Ajax armoured vehicles. Five soldiers were still under medical review when the Department...
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HSSIB recommendation
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Mental health inpatient settings: Creating conditions for the delivery of safe and therapeutic care to adults — HSSIB
Those involved in the design of new and upgraded built environments for mental health inpatient settings can improve patient safety and the delivery of therapeutic care by involving relevant stakeholders in design processes. Stakeholders include people with lived experience (patients and staff) and experts in human factors and ergonomics. Any design should also consider the changing needs of...
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GIRFT recommendation
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Emergency Medicine
NHS England and NHS Improvement should support trusts and systems to consider capital funding for their ED(s), with a view to ensuring that every trust has an ED(s) with an appropriate physical environment. This would enable the provision of high quality patient care and allow a good working environment for staff.
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CQC action
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William Harvey Hospital
The trust must ensure chemicals that are hazardous to health (COSHH) are stored safely and securely.
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terms: hazard
CQC action
53match
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital
The trust must ensure chemical products hazardous to health (COSHH) are stored safely and securely.
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terms: hazard
CQC action
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Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
The trust should ensure faults with the physical environment and premises are reported and fixed in a timely manner, including reported faults with the main entrance fire door.
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terms: physical
Scottish FAI
53match
Richard King and Roland Michael Duffell
In the light of my foregoing conclusions, I now offer the following recommendations:- • there are a number of matters which I would like to see considered as a matter of urgency by the committee responsible for British Standards in relation to flame cutting and welding equipment and hoses carrying both oxygen and flammable gases, namely;- • the...
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