| 英文摘要 |
This project aims to continue the southern environmental emergency response teams (ERTs). Two teams have been setup in Kaohsiung and Tainan, respectively. The Tainan Team was setup inside the Southern Taiwan Science Park while the Kaohsiung Team was setup inside the National Kaohsiung First University of Science & Technology. Each team had twelve members and at least three members were on duty at any time following the orders from EPA Toxic Control Center and EPA Toxic Information Center to provide incident response, monitoring, sampling and analysis, and recovery work. On the twenty four hours response work, a total of 20 on-scene response services were provided to date. Among these incident responses, there were four in Kaohsiung county, five in Kaohsiung city, nine in Tainan county, and two in Tainan city. Among these incidents, seven involved fire, sevev involved leak, and the remaining six involved no leak or fire. involved unknown chemicals. All of the responses were arrived within one hour after incident reporting. On the prevention of toxic incidents, the two teams have visited sixty four operating facilities, completed a total of thirty eight unnoticed testing of the operating facilities, held six drills, participated in twenty two table top drills, helped the local environmental bureaus to inspect the ER plan for one hundred and twenty six toxic facilities, provided eight workshops on promoting awareness of toxic substance control acts, held two meetings for exchange of experience with EPA Inspector Team, performed routine maintenance for local environmental bureaus on their emergency response equipment, held four workshops for national mobilization and joint response trainings, held an International Workshop on Southern Taiwan Toxic Incident Response Training, held one meeting on exchange and case studies of toxic incidents, and completed the analysis of toxic hazards for a total of seven hundred selected operating facilities and risk potential maps for Penghu, Taitong and Pingtong counties. The teams organized and signed two joint response teams from operating facilities including TSMC Fab 14 and Fab 6, UMC, CMO, Hans-Star, Epi-star, and Nanpao Resin Chemical Co., Eternal Chemicals, Hui-Yu Transport Co., and Jin-De Gas Co. The joint response teams have participated in nine response services or drills and have been an important task force for providing aids to facilities with insufficient capabilities.
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