While attempting to establish the Central Region Emergency Response Teams in 2009, this plan focused on training twenty-four emergency response personnel who were assigned to the Central Taiwan Science Park Team (Taichung team) or the Douliou Industrial Park Team (Yunlin team). The two teams responded to nineteen emergency incidents in central Taiwan (eighteen for Taichung team and Yunlin team) and tested for ten emergency simulating incidents. To class with task of incidents, there were one for number one, eight for number two, one for number three, and nine for number four. To class with type of incidents, there were seven fires, three gas explosions, five leaking accidents, two unknown chemicals accidents, and two other types of accidents. The average time before arrival at the emergency site was 37 minutes, which met the criterion of 80% responses within one hour. In prevention activities included of fifty-eight guidance and thirty-four unannounced tests of toxic chemical factories, assistance environmental protection bureau with reviewing emergency response plans for sixty-three of toxic chemical factories, eight orientations on toxic chemical management law, thirteen toxic chemical exercises, and two training course on toxic chemical emergency response for personnel who work in factories and government, respectively. Further, two mutual support agreements with Formosa Petrochemical and Chiang-Pen Transportation Corporation were signed to establish support from toxic chemical factories and to strengthen emergency response ability in central Taiwan. The plan accomplished prevention activities included guidance, unannounced tests, and exercises and accomplished emergency response for providing hazardous waste information needed, for toxic substance monitoring and sampling, for controlling environmental pollution, and for assisting with decontamination with chemical emergency incidents, in order to reduce the impact on environments.

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