This project had completed 100% in this year. Our Environmental Incident Specialist Teams in the central Taiwan operates at the Central Taiwan Science Park in Taichung (Taichung Team) and the Douliou Industrial Park in Yunlin (Yunlin Team), respectively. Each team includes 16 members. Our services in central region included 85 site inspections for manufacture plants, 40 no-advance notice tests for chemical operation, and 7 training and consolidation drills for local environmental protection bureau. In addition, we held governmental agency-training twice, joint prevention organization training workshops twice, and 19 exercises with the all-out civil defense, counterterrorism and environmental incidents. We also assisted local environmental protection bureaus and county governments in reviewing 175 emergency response plans, and held 11 regulation promulgation/education workshops. Furthermore, we attended commander training, held technical conferences for 24 hours and resident training for 16 hours, conducted 24 professional refreshing, and orientated new members for basic operation and technical training in April and June as well as advanced training in August and September. So far we each team have already responded to 24 incidents (12 incidents each team) and 16 simulation exercises. We also reached our ISO goals of responding in ten minutes after initiation (100%), participation in incident response or simulation three times or more for each per member and 95% readiness on equipment/instrument. In order to further held our capacity and knowledge of emergency response, some members were dispatched to attend the Professional Training on Emergency Response for Environmental Disasters (Japan in March), Hazardous Materials Technician Training Program (USA in August), and Marine Oil and Chemical Spills Pollution Response Personnel Training Program (France in October). From November 15th to 18th, we invited four international experts to exchange their experiences on Asia-Pacific HAZMAT Response and Chemical Management Workshop, which included one meeting and two informal discussions.

Toxic Chemicals、Environmental Incidents Specialist Team、Central Region of Taiwan