This project completed the contacting procedure on March 30 2005. According to the contact, the following work items have been carried out and completed: On the enforcement of southern area field training capabilities for response of toxic substances, the planning of training course for awareness level, operation level, technical level, and specialist level has completed. The lease of a training field has completed, training equipment was also installed. The training program will greatly facilitate the response capability in toxic incidents. On the improvement of response capabilities of southern center, the following items have been completed: a thermal image system has been installed and applied to actual incidents to prevent the occurrence of explosion and secondary fire. A rapid field detection of unknown toxic substances is also installed and applied to actual incidents. The system allows the responders to know the identities of the toxic substances such that proper actions and precautions can be taken. Three response teams were organized from toxic substance operating facilities. The response teams aim to provide help to relevant facilities with less response experiences. A equipment truck is also leased to facilitate the shipping of large equipment. Foreign information on environmental hormone and chemical regulatory control were collected regularly from www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and other journal articles. On the enforcement of response preparedness and practice capabilities of southern center, the following items have been completed: air pollutant monitoring has been performed for 29 operating sites with a total of 234 samples; water and soil sampling and analysis has been performed for 44 operating facilities with a total of 199 samples; 8 drills were held at different counties; 10 national and international case studies of toxic incidents were performed. Finally, the 2005 national conference on incident investigation of toxic incidents was also held on October 17~18, 2005. On the data collection of toxic substance operating facilities of southern center, the following items have been completed: a database search and transmission system is built and data pass to the north center with a total of more than 612 sets of data; revisions of MSDS, response cards, and rescue manuals of listed toxic substances no. 1~54 were made. On the enforcement of response system and response team capabilities of southern center, the following items have been completed: 40 operating facilities were visited and 15 ALOHA dispersion modeling were made; 35 unnoticed check were made to the operating facilities; two joint response trainings were held; two response mobilization trainings were also held for the local environmental bureaus, fire bridges, police bureaus etc. Three response team communications were also published on May, August, and December this year. On the 24 hours reponse work, a total of 159 media events were recorded to date and 35 on-scene response services were provided. Detailed reports will be presented in the text.

ENSERTS, Emergency Response, joint response team member