This project has completed 100% at the end of December, 2021, including the maintainence of three Environmental Incidents Specialist Teams (EISTs), Taichung, Yunlin, and Mailiao with 48 personnel. As to the preparation/mitigation works, we had completed 259 on-site counseling and 139 unwarned tests; 30 exercises/drills with local environmental protection agencies and 73 drills/table-top exercises related to national defense, counter-terrorism and environmental disasters; 374 site visits with local environmental protection agencies to inspect site prevention and response plans；26 meetings of laws and regulations explnantion; 3 promotion meetings of evacuation.shelter-in-place drills; 3 meetings of experience sharing with local fire protection units; 2 regional government mobilization seminars and 2 multual-aid organization training seminars; 2 case-study/review meetings with experts and governmentagencies; and 202 hazard analysis of toxic chemical and hazardous material operators. Our members of EISTs all attended the training hosted by TCSB with new members comleting basic and operational training classes in 4 months after their initiation of response duty. This project also completed the tasks of setting up the training facity and dispatch center for toxic chemical response in the National Fire Agency Training Center (NFATC) of the Ministry of the Interior. For the emergency response, the three teams dispated to the scene to assist incident responses in 32 events (12 for the Taichung team, 11 for the Yunlin team, and 9 for the Mailiao team) as well as the preparation of 66 emergency response tests (22 for the Taichung team, 22 for the Yunlin team, and 22 for the Mailiao team). All the core information and the response manuals for responding to toxic chemical incidents were updated in 2020 and 2021 accordingly.

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