This is the second year of the establishment for the Information Center of Emergency Center at the National Yulin University of Science and Technology (YERIC). The purpose for the Center is to reduce effects of incident by toxic chemicals. The services include the consultation of disaster prevention and mitigation; training, education, and promotion; assistance on emergency response, monitoring and sampling; and decontamination, etc. The achievements of this year include the follows. 1.Evaluate possible chemicals used by the terriers and establishment of response principles; Collect and translate 16 articles on persist organic pesticides; Collect the information regarding the transportation training fields. 2.Hold expert training, tank car response, mutual aid groups and governmental training twice for each courses; complete standard response procedures and expert training guidebooks; assistant the local agency (Environmental Protection Bureau of local government) to finish 36 un-warning tests on the manufactures. 3.On-duty 24 hours with 58 general advising, 36 emergency consultation, with 12 on-site emergency service. Complete 3 emergency site monitoring tasks, 8 sites of FTIR environmental monitoring and 25 sites of environmental sampling and analysis. Assistant in 10 HAZMAT exercises and complete 25 site-visits with operation checks and consequence analysis. 4.Renew emergency response guidebook, HAZMAT cards, manufacture information; set up TV monitoring and recording system; provide and distribute 6000 general promotion materials to increase public awareness on HAZMAT operation and incident response.

Toxic Chemical, Emergency Response, Education and Training