The Emergency Response Teams (ERTs) in the middle region of Taiwan have continued operation this year with two locations at Tai-Chung’s Central Taiwan Science Park Team (Taichung CTSP team) and Yunlin’s Douliou Industrial Park Team (Yunlin team), this project employed the trained twenty-eight members. The teams had responded to 22 incidents (twenty-two for Taichung team and twenty for Yunlin team). Among those, there was one for Number One Operation, twelve for Number Two Operation, four for Number Three Operation, and four for Number Four Operation as well as one supporting missions to other regions. To categorize those hazardous material incidents by types, there were three teen involving fires, six of leaking chemicals, four of other incidents. Emergency Response areas where including Taichung city to Chia-Yi county and Chia-Yi city. Among activities of prevention incidents, the ERTs also assisted in 67 consultation toxic chemical operating management and emergency response, 35 unannounced tests to toxic chemical factories, and assisting in reviewing emergency response plans for 329 factories with local environmental protection bureaus. This project also hosted eight Hazard Analysis consultation and eight review meetings, two one day-training for governmental units and two one-day training for factories. The ERTs also attended in 13 exercises involving toxic chemical or hazardous materials. Hold three international workshops to exchange experience and case-study with three invitees. Further, 2 mutual support teams(Formosa Petrochemical and Chiang-Pen Transportation Corporation) assisted in various responses and trainings to strengthen the response capability in central Taiwan. This project have already accomplished many prevention activities including provided consultation, unannounced tests, promotion, training and various field exercises and response activities for day-to-day operation. During the emergencies, this project provided consultation information, monitoring and sampling, control and containment of environmental pollution, decontamination, site restoration and incident review to lessen the impacts of toxic chemical incidents to our environment.

central Taiwan; toxic chemical; emergency response; prevention