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About SAFEGROUNDS

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SAFEGROUNDS stands for SAFety and Environmental Guidance for the Remediation of contaminated land on UK Nuclear and Defence Sites.

The network uses participatory approaches to develop and disseminate good practice guidance for the management of radioactively and chemically contaminated land on nuclear and defence sites in the UK.

SAFEGROUNDS mission:

"A forum for developing and disseminating good practice guidance on the management of radiaoactively and chemically contaminated land on nuclear and defence sites in the UK"

Its aims are to:

• maintain and promote SAFEGROUNDS guidance;
• provide a forum for debate and encourage stakeholder participation;
• provide information on policy, regulatory and technical issues;
• develop further SAFEGROUNDS supporting documents.

SAFEGROUNDS began in 1998 with a pilot study and is now a large and well-established learning network. It is supported by a wide range of groups including nuclear industry organisations, their regulators, government departments, local authorities, universities and NGOs. These types of group are represented on the Project Steering Group (PSG), which agrees and oversees the SAFEGROUNDS work programme, and approves all the documents that the network issues.

SAFEGROUNDS has developed five key principles for the management of contaminated land.  These are about:

• protection of people and the environment
• stakeholder involvement
• identifying the preferred land management option
• immediate action
• record-keeping

For more information on the key principles, please click here.

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