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Guide Line for 'On-Site
Emergency Plan'.
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Issued by Chief Inspector of Factories,
Gujarat State, Ahmedabad.
Forward
Section 41-B(4) of F.A. 1948 requires that every occupier
of a hazardous factory shall draw up an On-Site Emergency
Plan and detailed disaster control measures for his factory
and make known to the workers and the general public in
the vicinity, the safety measures required to be taken in
the event of an accident taking place:
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A report on status relating to risk assessment
and environmental impact assessment and the measures taken
to prevent the accidents.
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Report of probabilities of possible hazards
due to the failure of provided control measures and equipment
at different stages of all processes. Mention the names of
hazardous substances which may create above hazards.
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Provision for all facilities and procedures
for immediate control to minimize the effect of such probabilities.
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Arrangement with other agencies including
mutual aid with surrounding factories, etc. regarding facilities
available with them to utilize in case of emergency at your
plant.
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Arrangement for informing workers, public
in vicinity, surrounding factories, etc. regarding any emergency
which may occur.
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Arrangement for evacuation of persons
likely to be affected due to emergency.
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Arrangement for transferring persons affected
due to emergency to the hospital and medical care centre.
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To ensure about necessary treatment and
availability of antidotes at medical centre and hospitals.
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Organization chart for fixation of responsibilities
of different persons at different stages for handling emergency
due to fire, explosion or toxic release.
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Details relating to alert system. |
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Arrangements to create and maintain awareness
and emergency preparedness in personnel handling emergency
by making provisions of training, mock drills etc. at regular
interval.
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Submission of map of the area showing the
approach to the factory, location of emergency facilities
such as hospitals, police, fire services, etc.
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Notification of place of gathering of workers
and staff at the time of emergency.
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Information, in detail, regarding any disaster
which might have occurred in your factory or in any other
factory using similar process in the country or elsewhere
during last ten years.
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Provisions of control room arrangement
for twenty four hours (excluding or with other services).
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Submission of material safety data sheet
for hazardous substances in the Performa attached herewith.
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Arrangements regarding maintenance of different
equipments, control measures and safe procedure of work so
that they shall work effectively.
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A statement on all possible sources of
accidents involving fire, explosion, release or leakage of
toxic substances and the plan of showing the places of above
accident with the facilities to control the emergency near
the place and the control place.
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Therefore, to comply with the above requirements
and to prepare a good on-site and off-site emergency plan,
general guide-lines are given here.
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Because of wide variation in size and complexity
of the factory, manpower employed location of the works, nature
of the process, material handled and availability of the resources,
it is not possible to set out the detailed procedure suitable
to all. Each may have some common elements which are incorporated
in this model format. What ever may be the pattern, it should
be ensuring that people nominated to take the immediate measures
are always available at all times. The time element in intervention
to stop an accident from growing is crucial.
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While preparing this guideline following
documents are gone through and we are great full to those
contributors:
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Recommended procedures for handling major
emergencies by chemical Industries Association, U.K.
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The Control of Industrial Major Accident
Hazards Regulations 1984 (CIMAH): Further guidance on emergency
plans by Health and safety executive, U.K.
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Report of committee for preparation on
model format for on-site/off-site emergency plans, issued
by DGFASLI in January 1987.
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Major Accident Hazard Control by safety
Division, C.L.I. Bombay.
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Draft-5, On-site Emergency Plan by ICMA,
December 1988, and comments of DGFASLI thereon.
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Guidelines on On-site Emergency Plan-Director
of Factories, Department of labour, U.P.
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Environmental guide lines for sitting of
industry by ministry of environment and forest, Government
of India, New Delhi.
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Control of Major Hazards in India, by ILO,
Geneva, 1985.
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Major Hazard Control, A practical manual,
ILO, Geneva, 1988.
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On-site plans by some factories.
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Based on the above and experience of our
Inspectorate, exact information are asked, in 33 Annexure
to make the plan more useful.
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Try to furnish maximum possible information
to these annexure. Enlarge the table if necessary. For small
factory, owing to the less chemicals and persons, the information
shall be reduced, but, then multiple responsibilities will
have to be shared by them and their names may be repeated
in some annexure.
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Some plans have suggested type of emergency
-A, B, etc. Some have suggested emergency teams A, B, C: Some
are required most of the key personnel to arrive at the scene
after getting information and some have suggested different
procedures. They may create confusion and are not suitable
for small and medium factories. But the U.K. guide line (also
followed by the IOL.) is more simple and more clear, and there
fore, they are followed in this format with necessary modifications
for our situations. Flexibility for small factories is also
suggested at appropriate places.
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A separate chapter is given on for an off-site
emergency plan is given to explain and link between the on-site
and off-site plans and to carry out joint rehearsals. An on-site
plan is the base for an off-site plan and both must be understood
together. Some time some duties in on-site plan are to be
extended for off-site plan. Therefore, both the plans are
explained in this document.
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The information given here is in good faith.
Any special information depending on the nature of the plant
or as per expert's advice will have to be incorporated.
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I thank Shri K.U. Mistry, one of our Senior
Inspector, who spared time for carefully preparing this document.
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Ahmedabad,
27th April, 1989 |
Chief Inspector of Factories
Gujarat State, Ahmedabad
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