The Central Region Emergency Response Team for Environmental Toxic Chemical Incident located at Central Taiwan Science Park and Douliou Industrial Park is designated by the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (TEPA) to mitigate incidents caused by toxic chemicals since 2007. The Central Region Emergency Response Team served the counties and manufacturers in the center region of Taiwan on the items including consultation and advising on prevention and mitigation, training and promotion, assistance and monitoring (sampling) during emergency response, decontamination in order to reduce the effects of these incidents. The achievements of this year’s works include the follows. 1.The plan Established 24 personnel for The Central Region Emergency Response Team for environmental toxic chemical incident since January 1th 2007. The plan established 24-hour on-duty of three personnel for environmental toxic chemical incident and three stand-by personnel since January 1th 2007. During the plan, the Taichung team finished the 137 hours and the Yunlin team finished the 128 hours train courses including awareness, operation, technical, and specialist level before March 31th 2008. In addition, the content of train and education finished and provided for other emergency response teams. 2.The Central Region Emergency Response Team for Environmental Toxic Chemical Incident located designated by the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (TEPA) at Central Taiwan Science Park and Douliu Idustry Park were established. The new purchase for detection equipments in order to increase our response capacity. There were 36 on-site emergency services. The emergency services included personnel, vehicles, and occasions of VOC or FTIR detection. The average arrival time was more than 70% arrival in one hour after the reporting. 3.In order to strengthen operating toxic chemicals factories, there were 66 toxic chemicals factories guidance, 31 toxic chemicals factories test without a notice before, and 10 toxic chemicals factories exercise for environmental toxic chemical. Dependence on the results of guidance, test, and exercise, the suggestion was finished to operating toxic chemicals factories and strengthen the safety concept. 4.The plan established two support teams for environmental toxic chemical incident: one is the Formosa Petrochemical Company at Yulin County and the other is Chiang-Pen Company at Chia-Yi County. The training classes were held on July with 24 attendants. After finished the training course, the support teams are willing to help occasions of environmental toxic chemical incident.

Toxic Chemical Management, Emergency Response, Education and Training