Emergency Planning and Response

Effective Emergency Response Planning limits the impact to personnel, environment, assets, and business continuity. Emergencies can include everything from process safety events and extreme weather such as floods and earthquakes, etc. to sabotage, and hazardous events from neighboring facilities (fire, explosions, toxic releases etc.). Most Emergency Response Plans are based upon a “credible” scenario, but as some of these “incredible” events occur, they become “credible”. Are your plans updated? Emergency response planning starts well before an emergency occur as some plans may involve prediction, consequence modelling, and mitigation of consequences through inherently safer design considerations, layers of protection, internal and external communications, mustering, evacuation routes and provisions as well as ways stakeholder engagement in response planning. Topics of interest include any of those mentioned here.