Useful links

External Links

• The Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations 1999
• The Control of Major Accident Hazards (Amendment) Regulations 2005
• The UK Statutory Instrument covering legislation of the COMAH Regulations.
• The Flood Safety Blog, dealing with matters relating specifically to protection from the effects of flooding.
• A report from the BBC about the failure of the Carlisle City Flood Defence System, which shows the danger of over-reliance on fixed telephone lines as a means of communication during an emergency.
• BBC Report of the First UK Live Test of Portable Boxed Sirens, which we supplied to Oxfordshire County Council.
• The Health & Safety Executive's Hazardous Installations Directorate.

Resources

To play the following sounds, you may need to install the Fraunhofer codec (161 KB .zip file).

The following documents can be read using Adobe's free Acrobat reader:

• Sample siren sounds and recorded messages (opens in a new window).
• White Paper about the use of Outdoor Early Warning Sirens for protection against catastrophies and terrorist attacks. This article was included in the United Nation's publication "Known Risks", that was issued to delegates at the United Nations Disaster Reduction Summit in Kobe, Japan. (Acrobat PDF, 262 KB).
• E57 Siren Data sheet (Acrobat PDF, 135 KB).
• ECN 600 Siren (Acrobat PDF, 128 KB).
• ECN 1200 Siren (Acrobat PDF, 139 KB).
• ECN 2400 Siren (Acrobat PDF, 114 KB).