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The 2006Annual Report for the Middle Region Information Center of Emergency Response for Toxic Chemical Incident

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This year the Emergency Response Information Center at the National Yulin University of Science and Technology (YERIC) continued to provide the services on prevention consultation, education and training, emergency response on site, mitigation consultation, monitoring and sampling, and decontamination and recovery for the governmental units and manufacture plants in the region. The main objectives are to mitigate and to reduce the effects of the toxic chemical incidents. The achievements include the follows. 1. On promotion and education fronts, the center printed various types of booklets and folders as well as organized the hazardous characteristic and mitigation manuals in order to promote and increase the prevention, safety, and emergency response knowledge. The we-bsite was updated, electronic newsletters were delivered, and web-based courses of Hazmat school were tried out with some positive results. 2. On raising the mitigation ability, the center engaged on real on-site emergency response and simulation exercises for 26 times. More than 71% of emergency responses arrived in one hour as well as the works of site monitoring, sampling, and analysis. The center also collected more than 213 cases from media monitoring. In addition, the center also assisted the equipment trucks in the region in order to increase their applicability. 3. For the prevention measures, the center continued to train our personnel and manufacturers’ personnel(113). Many works on un-notified tests on emergency response (63), 32 site-visit, and 16 consequence analysis were conducted along with the sampling and monitoring. The center also held the group meeting of mutual aids, governmental units, and an annual conference on response cases. There were more than 1000 attendants on those meetings. 4. For the certification of lab testing, the tests and documents were completed without some personnel training due to the schedule arrangement. In order to continue the previous works, the center also conducted the emergency responses and assistances this year. The expanse were deducted from some assigned works, including anti-terrorist preparation and others, with the amount of NT$1,166,000. Other urgent or necessary assistances were also significant with 100 man-day.
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Toxic Chemical Emergency Response,Information Center,Education and Training
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