This project aims to continue the southern environmental response teams (ERTs) for toxic incidents. Two teams have been setup in Kaohsiung and Tainan, respectively. Each team had 16 members and at least three members were on duty at any time following the orders from the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Toxic Control Center and EPA Toxic Information Center to provide incident response, monitoring, sampling and analysis, and recovery work. On the twenty four hours response work, a total of eleven on-scene response services were provided to date. On the prevention of toxic incidents, the two teams have visited sixty operating facilities, completed a total of thirty unnoticed testing of the operating facilities, held four drills, participated in forty three table top drills, helped the local environmental bureaus inspect the emergency response plan for two hundred eighty toxic operating facilities, provided eight workshops on promoting awareness of toxic substance control acts, held two meetings for exchange of experience with the EPA Inspector Team, performed routine maintenance for EPA on their emergency response equipment, held four workshops for national mobilization and joint response trainings, held the International Workshop on Southern Taiwan Toxic Incident Response Training, held one meeting on exchange and case studies of toxic incidents, and completed the analysis of toxic hazards and risk potential maps for south region, and provide analysis of potential hazard zone and evacuation zone for the reference for local environmental bureaus to enforce their disaster prevention and protection plans. The teams also organized and signed two joint response teams from operating facilities. The joint response teams have participated in eleven response services or drills and have been an important task force for providing aids to facilities with insufficient capabilities.

EPAERT、Emergency Response、 Exercise for Emergency Response of Toxic Substance