(41a) Development of a Chemical Accident Response Scenario for Central Accidents Headquarters in Korea
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2019
2019 Spring Meeting and 15th Global Congress on Process Safety
Computing and Systems Technology Division
Computers in Operations: Process Safety and Control
Monday, April 1, 2019 - 3:30pm to 3:55pm
The regional disaster countermeasures headquarters response accidents through 13 management units in the event of a chemical accidents and establishes an integrated support center to support and direct the on-site emergency response control team. However when the scale of the chemical accidents is too large for the regional disaster countermeasures headquarters, cooperation with the central government or other municipalities is needed. In this study, a disaster response scenario which is focused on chemical accident is developed for central accidents headquarters in connection with the regional disaster countermeasure headquarters. 5 management units including the situation analysis/information management, the related organization cooperation unit, the effect investigation team, the media response unit, and the complex incident response unit are selected and their tasks are defined.
The scenario consists of a timeline of 4 steps and the responses of each management units. And the scenario is based on the assumption that the accident is solved smoothly. In order to apply the scenario to real training, the 7 major problems of the central accidents headquarters are selected. These major problems is linked to the main issues of the existing regional disaster countermeasure headquarters scenarios and a framework to effectively response to each major problems is developed. This framework consists of 9 steps including recognizing the situation, assigning for a task to management units, determining how to response the situation, and so on. Evaluation method for countermeasure behavior is proposed to measure the suitability of trainees' responses to the situation. It is expected that the integrated scenario for the central accidents headquarters developed in this study will enable the integrated training of municipalities and the central government.
The scenario consists of a timeline of 4 steps and the responses of each management units. And the scenario is based on the assumption that the accident is solved smoothly. In order to apply the scenario to real training, the 7 major problems of the central accidents headquarters are selected. These major problems is linked to the main issues of the existing regional disaster countermeasure headquarters scenarios and a framework to effectively response to each major problems is developed. This framework consists of 9 steps including recognizing the situation, assigning for a task to management units, determining how to response the situation, and so on. Evaluation method for countermeasure behavior is proposed to measure the suitability of trainees' responses to the situation. It is expected that the integrated scenario for the central accidents headquarters developed in this study will enable the integrated training of municipalities and the central government.