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National Recording of Environmental Incidents in Scotland

Environmental Health (Scotland) Unit, Ruchill Hospital, Bilsland Drive, Glasgow, G20 9NB

One of the main problems in determining the environmental status of a territory is the common failure to accurately record the occurrence of environmental incidents. All too often control ofpollution is the responsibility ofvarious independent central and local government departments without overall co operation and recording of incidents.

If an official recording mechanism is not in place no determina tion of the number of environmental incidents that occur in a given period of time can be determined, no relation of connected incidents can be made, no lessons can be learned and passed on to all those working in the pollution control field, and no assessment of improved environmental standards can be achieved. In Scot land for the past 3 years a central system for recording environ mental health incidents has been in place and many benefits from this administrative arrangement are already evident.

The implementation, management benefits and results ob tained from the programme are given and suggestions are made as to how this programme could be extended internationally.

The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol. 113, No. 6, 295-297 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/146642409311300604


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