Notification procedures, incident

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)... 

For those incidents for which upward reporting is necessary, a notification procedure, kept current, should be in place to which all employees and location management personnel can refer, to ensure that all interested personnel receive proper notification. Such a notification procedure would ... 

It is probably likely that immediately after an incident, states will hesitate from responding to the provisions of the convention for fear of over-reacting. Once the true nature of an incident has been established and the notification procedures initiated, affected external states may quite possibly feel that they could have received earlier notification. The effectiveness of the convention will depend on the interpretation placed by different agents in the chain of responsibility, from reactor operators to national energy ministries, on whether a release of radioactive material is likely to occur , and whether it may result in transboundary contamination that could be of radiological significance (Article 1 (1)). Experience in the UK over the past decade has shown that such terms can be interpreted inclusively or exclusively. 

Implement the Incident Command System, including procedures for the notification and utilization of outside resources. 

Had the above terms of notification and procedures now specified in the MOU been in place at the time of the May 8-9,2000, incident at TOCDF, the impermissible delays between the time of detection and the time of reporting could have been avoided. The MOU between DCD and Tooele County and the new reporting procedures address a number of the recurring reporting deficiencies that have been experienced at the site. Missing from the MOU, however, are specific training requirements that should be implemented to ensure that... 

Hazardous waste operations—incident command system, scene safety and control, spill control and containment, decontamination procedures, emergency termination or all-clear notification... 

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