Emergency Planning and Response

Emergencies can include everything from process safety events (i.e., fire, explosions, toxic releases etc.), extreme weather events (e.g. floods,  earthquakes), and third-party events (such as sabotage,  neighboring facility impacts). 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 occurs as some plans may involve prediction, consequence modeling, 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 may include any of those mentioned here.