Incident Emergency Preparedness Training 2005

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Incident Emergency Preparedness Training 2005:
Attached is our draft version of the current plan awaiting approval from higher authority. The incident management team comprises of six members they are EC = Emergency Controller, DEC = Deputy Emergency Controller. These two are senior members of the management team. The other four are two information board mangers and two action board managers. Someone from Fire and security is always there and depending on the nature of the incident principal guiding of the team may be from either.

Other members such as safety, occupational health, engineering services, utilities attend as required. External agencies again are requested as required. We are currently moving to a new incident room and your teams thoughts on the layout etc would be useful. Although it has to be said that the room is done deal. As you can see in the plan we operate three daily levels of response. Level 1, 2 & 3. Our operating year runs 1 December to 30 November. This years figures are 361 calls to date with only one of those being escalated to Level 4, which invokes the incident management team. (See attached power point)

In terms of your organisation providing us with a training programme for incident management I would like you to focus on four scenarios. These have been identified by our friendly HSE inspector as something they would like seen done. There is also a requirement under a separate corporate guideline titled "incident preparedness" which makes clear we have to have an on site emergency plan and be able to demonstrate a training programme is in place.

The scenarios we are developing and I would like the team to train on in
2005 are:
1) Chlorine and HCL toxic realise from their 800kg storage vessels. Here we only ever have one product at a time on site, depending on the campaign.
2) Fire in the solvent handling facility (formally known as the tank farm)
3) Flooding, here we cannot stop the flooding as the site is below or at sea level, what they ask for here is mitigation
4) Loss of Selamectin. This is a non flammable substance which if lost in to the water table is extremely harmful to aquatic life particularly shell fish and other encrustation life that forms part of the larger sea species food chain. And as we are right next to a tidal river and almost on the foreshore it is something the company pays a great attention to when in production.
5) Number five is one I would like to see done and that is a theoretical incident that that only runs on paper for about 20 minutes. When the decision is taken by the incident management team to evacuate the site. It is from that point I would like to run next years real time exercise titled "Evacuation and Accounting for People"

Click here to view/download the on Site Emergency Response Plan v5.doc

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