To apply our expert knowledge and capability to enable businesses to understand both known and unknown risk and to innovate safely as we transition to net zero.
To develop our understanding of the future asset base and the role key stakeholders (e.g. designers, manufacturers, operators, etc.) play in managing risk and maintaining safe operations. To work with industry to prevent major incidents around new technologies and applications that come with the government’s commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 through working with others to understand changing risks and challenges to ensure regulatory framework remains fit for purpose. We recognise that development of net zero technologies will present challenges that businesses and society are less familiar with. We will work to make sure that health and safety legislation does not prevent safe innovation and progress. To help manage risk, we will focus our attention on the breadth of activities that net zero encompasses. This will provide evidence to inform any policy, regulatory and operational changes needed to support business. We will achieve this by working partnerships with stakeholders, communication activities, regulatory interventions and enforcement. To bring together science, policy, and regulation, we will help businesses in Great Britain establish themselves as world leaders in net zero.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The UK Net Zero Strategy published in October 2021 reflects the urgency of action needed to avoid climate catastrophe. The net zero journey outlined therein addresses economy and emissions reduction in all sectors, with ...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast
The project specifically addresses the need for understanding evolving constraints in design systems for net zero, which aligns with the question about understanding the validity of original design life in the face of changing use and creeping change.
**Background** Utilities and other asset-rich sectors are under intense pressure from governments, regulators and the public to improve their environmental performance, and the operational performance, safety and reliab...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: PAM ANALYTICS LTD
While the project focuses on using data science to improve asset resilience and environmental performance, it only partially addresses the question as it does not directly discuss the validity of original design life in the face of changing use and creeping change.
The overall theme of this proposal is System risks in information-rich environments: monitoring for safe and cost-effective operation. Research in this area aims to support the design, manufacture and operation of new en...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde
The project partially answers the question by addressing the risks and challenges of new technologies and applications in the context of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions.