This project has completed 100% at the end of December , 2019, including to operate two Environmental Incident Specialist Teams (EISTs), Taichung and Yulin with 18 members each in the central region of Taiwan. For EISTs’ daily tasks, we completed 186 site-inspections for the plants operating toxic chemicals, 97 emergency tests without an early warning, and 25 exercises to assist the local Environmental Protection Bureaus (EPBs). This project also hosted the governmental agency-training as well as the mutual-aid training workshop four times each, and assisted 105 filld exercises on the incidents related to civil defense, antiterrorism or environmental disasters. The project also assisted those EPBs to review 467 emergency response plans for those plants operating toxic chemicals, and hosted the regulation promulgation/education workshops 23 times. Moreover, some members of EISTs had completed the incident commander training and the technical meeting led by Toxic and Chemical Substance Bureau (TCSB) of Taiwan Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EISTs also conducted 48 training classes on basic and technical operations for our new and old members. So far, two EISTs responded to 36 incidents and completed 40 simulation exercises (18 incidents and 20 exercises for each team). This project also assisted TCSB to arrange two group training on emergency response at French Groupe d’Etude de Sécurité des Industries Pétrolières et Chimiques (GESIP) in Vernon, France, i. e. the “International Professional Organization FRO Training” in September, 2018 and the “Environmental Disaster Response-field Commander Training” in June 2019, respectively. This project also supported TCSB to initiate a construction project for establishing the professional training facilities of environmental incidents and the materials dispatching center at the training center of the National Fire Agency, Ministry of the Interior. In order to improve overall professional capacity on emergency response of toxic chemicals, this project also the project also assisted in planning for stengthening training capacity equipment purchase as well as class modules for petrochemical training site to meeting the needs.

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