This project has completed 100 % at December 31th, 2023. Our first tasks were to maintain EISTs of Taichung team at the Central Taiwan Science Park, Taichung, Yulin team at the Douliou Industrial Park, Yulin, and Mailiao team at Mailiao with 48 personnel. As to the preparation/mitigation works, we had conducting 281 on-site counseling (including 30 in depth counseling) and 127 unwarned tests; 59 Mailiao floor plan checks and 36 detection alarm device tests of Yunlin Offshore Industrial Park; assisted the environmental protection bureaus to conduct 42 drills and training sessions; conducted 106 drills/exercises/table-top exercise for national defense, counter-torrism and environmental incidents; assisted the environmental protection bureaus to 638 on-site visits and inspection of response plans; assisted 25 law and regulation promotion meetings; conducted 4 evacuation publicity session; conducted 4 general green life and disaster prevention education activities (expanded words); assisted 2 cooperation meetings with Kinmen County Government, signed an agreement of mutual support in toxic chemical incident emergency response, assisted 1 drills and training session and conducted 3 emergency responder training; conducting 2 regional government mobilization seminars, and conducting 4 mutual-aid organization training seminars; conducting 2 case-study/review seminars with expert and governmental agencies; and finished 418 hazard analyses on public hazardous status. Our members of EISTs all attended the training hosted by Chemical Administration, Ministry of Environment (CHA), and all new recruits have completed basic and operational responders trainings within 4 months; For emergency response tasks, dispatching three EISTs to incident scenes to assist in the responses in 21 events (7 events for the Taichung team, 7 events for the Yunlin team, 6 events for the Mailiao team, and 1 event for cross-region support). In addition, EISTs completed 75 simulation and emergency tests (25 for the Taichung team, 25 for the Yunlin team, and 25 for the Mailiao team), total 96 events; Accomplishing the core information for toxic chemical incident response in the central region; assigned 3,663 man-day to support the tasks of CHA. In order to strengthen domestic environmental disaster response skill and exchange international experience, our project assigned members to participate 2022 NFPA Conference ＆ Expo® in Boston, USA, 2022 Hotzone Conference in Houston, USA, Oklahoma State University on-site visit in USA, 2023, 2023 International Association of Fire Chiefs in Baltimore, USA, Cedre training in Brest, France, 2023 and 14th European Congress of Chemical Engineering, 2023; Supported CHA in operating the petrol chemical training facility and establishing the training facility and dispatching center for toxic chemical disasters in the National Fire Agency Training Center of the Ministry of the Interior.

Management of toxic chemical substances, Environmental Incidents Specialist Team, Central Region of Taiwan