Community Awareness and Emergency Response

Community Awareness and Emergency Response, under Responsible Care (CAER)... 

Community Awareness and Emergency Response Handbook, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Washington, DC (1989). 

CAER Community Awareness and Emergency Response a program developed by the Chemical Manufacturers Association to provide guidance for chemical plant managers to assist them in cooperating with local communities to develop integrated hazardous materials response plans. 

Community awareness and emergency response (ACC Responsible Care) Calorie per gram... 

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER) program provides comprehensive guidelines for the development and implementation of an ERP. The CAER program has been expanded to include all aspects of the chemical industry in an initiative called Responsible Care. 

Emergency preparedness a yes score has been awarded since Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER) is reported in the short CER, and specific mention is made of the use of community advisory panels in that process. 

The Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) Responsible Care Program is designed to provide CMA members with guidance regarding safety, health, and environmental quality. The program includes six codes of practice covering Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER), Pollution Prevention, Process Safety, Distribution, Employee Health and Safety, and Product Stewardship. 

Another example is the Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies at Local Level (APELL) program, also launched in 1988. APELL was originally based on the Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER) program, which later became part of the chemical industry s Responsible Care initiative. It includes elements of the EU Seveso Directive and the U.S. Right-to-Know initiative (UNEP, 1997). 

Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER)—a program designed to inform the community surrounding a plant of potentially hazardous situations and of hazardous chemicals found in the plant, to work with the community to develop emergency response programs, and to open the lines of communication between industry and the community. 

The first code adopted, and one of the most familiar to the public as well as to industry, was adapted from CMA s Community Awareness and Emergency Response (CAER) program. Its primary aim is to reduce the risk of injury to employees and neighbors in case of a plant accident. CAER required subscribing companies to ... 

The analysis of evasive actions is empirical, and is based primarily on historical information firom past incidents. These rates may be pessimistic because increased attention is now being given to emergency response plans for CPI facilities. These response plans should improve the scope and response to evasive actions [e.g., CMA s CAER (Community Awareness and Emergency Responses) program]. 

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