4. Aim of STAC
4.1 The aim of the STAC is as far as is practicable to provide emergency co-ordinating groups with authoritative information and agreed advice on the risk assessment of health and environmental hazards, by:
- bringing together or arranging contact with all the relevant specialist advisers through a single group;
- providing agreed recommendations on risk management action;
- providing co-ordinated risk communication messages; and
- confining the main discussion on such issues to within the STAC itself (rather than at the main co-ordinating group meetings).