Emergency Response Planning Committee

Developing techniques to anticipate and control potentially dangerous situations in the workplace and the community - such as development of preventive assessment strategies for newly introduced chemicals or processes or participating in community emergency response planning committees. 

Emergency Response Planning Committee Emergency Response Planning Guidelines. American Industrial Hygiene Association, 2002. Cincinnati, OH ACGIH, 2002. 

EPCRA22 is intended to help communities prepare to respond in the event of a chemical emergency, and to increase the public s knowledge of the presence and threat of hazardous chemicals. To this end, EPCRA requires the establishment of state and local committees to prepare communities for potential chemical emergencies. The focus of the preparation is a community emergency response plan that must... 

The plan must be coordinated with local emergency response plans developed by Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) and local emergency response agencies. As with similar OSHA regulations, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the... 

Number of meetings or other contacts v/ith local emergency responders or the local emergency planning committee (LEPC) regarding emergency response plans X... 

In the United States, the legislation known as SARA Tide III (Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act) has led to the creation on Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs). These committees can be used as a forum for community communication and for the creation of emergency response plans. 

Does the change affect EHS initiatives (EHS steering committee, emergency response plan (ERP) committee, etc.)... 

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