Major incident management planning

Process Safety Management (PSM) Comprehensive set of plans, policies, procedures, practices, administrative, engineering, and operating controls designed to ensure that barriers to major incidents are in place, in use, and are effective. 

Function—One of the five major activities in the incident command system—command, operations, planning, logistics, and finance/administration. The rm function is also used when describing the activity involved (e.g., the planning fnnction). A sixth fnnction, intelligence/investigations, may be established, if required, to meet incident management needs. 

Section— The organizational level having responsibility for a major functional area of incident management (e.g., operations, planning, logistics, finance/administration, and intelligence/investi-gations [if established]). 

In conjunction with this assessment of environmental risk, operators are required to develop an accident management plan (and implement it in the event of an accident). The associated EP guidance does not differentiate specifically between what might be considered a major environmental accident and other lesser pollution incidents. 

Here there is a need for managers to ask themselves this question what is the very worst possible type of incident or event that could arise in the business activity For most types of organisation this could be a major escalating fire, but other types of major incident should be considered, such as an explosion, collapse of a scaffold, flood or serious vehicular traffic accident. The need for some form of emergency plan should be considered. See also Chapter 4 -Safety Management Systems. 

Management should consider these threats are real and consider contingency planning for major events similar to accidental hydrocarbon incidents. Key isolation and shutdown mechanism should have the utmost integrity where shut threats are realized. 

FEMA is not the only culprit a breakdown occurred on all levels of government. According to the National Response Plan that establishes a comprehensive all-hazards approach to enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents, local, state, and federal authorities are all designated specific responsibilities and duties. The mayor is responsible for coordinating local resources to address the full spectrum of actions to prevent, prepare for, and recover from major disasters, accidents or acts of terrorism. He/she requests state and, if necessary, federal assistance through the governor of the state when the jurisdiction s capabilities have been... 

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