- The aim of the STAC is, as far as is practicable, to provide RPs with authoritative information and agreed advice on the risk assessment of health and environmental hazards and technical failure by:
- Bringing together or arranging contact with all the relevant specialist advisers through a single group;
- Providing agreed recommendations on risk management action;
- Providing agreed risk communication messages; and
- Confining the main discussion on such issues to within the STAC itself (rather than at the RP meetings).
- Establishing a STAC will be particularly important in a potential or actual emergency situation where there are obvious and current threats to public health or the wider environment, but also where potential threats to public health may arise, including those that might result from action taken to manage an emergency, e.g. in evacuating people. Additionally, a STAC may be activated to provide scientific and technical advice in other circumstances where a RP has been activated, e.g. in the event of a critical national infrastructure failure, such as a major power failure.
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