Building now
Safety & community protection
Technical safety and research protection must exist before participant recruitment - not after.
Technical safety domain
Draft checklist for digesters, gas, generators and sensors.
- Gas leakage detection and response
- Carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide risk management
- Fire, pressure and ventilation requirements
- Generator exhaust and electrical protection
- Digestate hygiene and feedstock contamination controls
- Child access prevention and site security
- Maintenance logs and incident reporting
- Technician certification standards
Research & community protection domain
Required before pilot data collection begins.
- Informed consent processes
- Data minimisation and retention limits
- Access control and breach response
- Research ethics approval pathway
- Referral of serious symptoms to clinical care
- Safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults
- Complaints and grievance mechanism
- Community withdrawal and adverse-event process
Detailed SOPs will be published with partner review. Until then this page is Building now - not a claim of completed certification.
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