Incident planning

NFPA 1620 Recommended Practice for Pre-Incident Planning, 1998 edition. National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA. 

Pre-incident planning, coordination, and notification procedures with outside parties as required by 29 CFR 1910.120. (Start with your local fire department—it may have more expertise than you are aware of)... 

Coordinating ESF activities relating to catastrophic incident planning and critical infrastructure preparedness as appropriate. 

The Emergency Planning and Community Bdght-to-Know Act (EPCRA), 42 U.S.C. 11011 et seq. (1986) Eacilities must make plans for major incidents. Plans must be made public to the local community. 

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Pre-incident planning, continuous size-up, command system, control zones, search and rescue, safety concerns, communications, and protective equipment. Leader s guide available. 

The initial step in pre-incident planning is a risk assessment, based on an inventory of all material stored at the warehouse. This information should be readily available as part of the Hazard Communication program outlined in Chapter 4. The properties and hazards of stored materials should be determined using the material safety data sheets and... 

NFPA 1620 provides extensive details on pre-incident planning that involves the evaluation of protection systems, building constraction, contents, and operating procedures that can impact emergency operations. Major topics include physical elements and site considerations, occupant considerations, protection systems and water supplies, special hazard considerations, emergency operations, and plan testing and maintenance. 

NFPA 472 identifies three such skilled support personnel and specifies, in detail, their required competencies 1) tank car speciahst (Chapter 11), 2) cargo tank specialist (Chapter 12), and 3) intermodal tank specialist (Chapter 13). In general, they must be able to analyze the incident, plan the response, and implement the plan. 

A scenario that has a relatively high probability of occurring for the situation under examination. As part of emergency response planning, credible scenario exercises or pre-planning is undertaken. In order to avoid undue and unrealistic postulation of events that may occur, a collection of credible scenarios is identified and assembled. These can be based on past loss histories or on risk assessments that have been undertaken for the specific aspect being reviewed. See also Pre-incident Planning Scenario Tabletop Drill. 

An acronym for Life safety. Incident stabilization. Property conservation, and protection of the Environment. Commonly referred to during hazardous material incident planning and response. 

The plans function supports the response organization by conducting the incident-planning activities and by acquiring, processing, documenting, and disseminating all incident-related information. 

Report the information immediately to the police department fire department Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) FBI and other appropriate agencies. The sequence of notification should be established in the bomb incident plan. 

Chemical incident planning should be integrated into standard hospital disaster plans and should have the direct involvement of emergency medical staff who will be expected to receive casualties with toxic trauma. 

All of these elements should be incorp>orated into hospital major incident plans, although resources and procedure may vary between units. 

Warning of a chemical incident may originate from the emergency services, an industrial site, the military or other security source. If warning is received in advance the chemical incident plan can be activated, allowing for preparation of facilities for decontamination and treatment ahead of casualty arrival. However, where a chemical release has not yet been established casualties may end up b)q>assing... 

Incident planning. Procedures should be defined to deal with the unfortunate occurrence of incidents and accidents (see bow-tie analysis in Appendix A). Rationale. Recovery procedures will limit loss of life and resources. It will also ensure that the organisation knows what to do in the event of an accident investigation/board of inquiry. 

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