Foreword

This document (EN 15975‑2:2013) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 164 “Water supply”, the secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by February 2014, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by February 2014.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN [and/or CENELEC] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

In crisis situations, which are difficult to forecast and, therefore, impossible to make complete provision for in risk management, appropriate crisis response management applies. Such situations are addressed in EN 15975‑1.

This second part of guidelines for risk and crisis management describes a risk management approach for routine operations. This standard is complemented by Part 1 addressing crisis management procedures.

This is the second part of the European Standard "Security of drinking water supply — Guidelines for risk and crisis management" consisting of two parts as follows:

— Part 1: Crisis management;
— Part 2: Risk management.

The elaboration of this European Standard has been financially supported by the EC and the CIPS Program (Grant Agreement HOME/2009/CIPS/FP/CEN-002).

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

BS EN 15975-2:2013

Security of drinking water supply. Guidelines for risk and crisis management - Risk management

Current, Under Review

Published:

30 Sep 2013