Public Safety Management on Chemical Factories

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Public Safety Managementon Chemical Factories

• Reporter IDB
• Industrial Development Bureau
• Dec. 15, 2004

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Outlines

• Background
• Current Situation
• Accomplishments of Safety Program Implementation
• Recommendations for Safety Policy
• Future Goals

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Background

• Potential risks are widely accompanying with the
  operation of hazardous chemicals, equipment,
  facility and manufacturing processes in chemical
  industry which is the major exporter in Taiwan.

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Background (Contd)

• In 2001, a fire explosion accident in Hsin-Chu
  Industrial Park brought billions loss, 46
  factories damaged in neighborhood and 109 people
  injured.
• Fire, accidental release, explosion and chemical
  tank car accident are the top 4 accidents in
  chemical related industries.

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Taiwan Industrial Accidents
1994/12002/3
FIRE
VAPOR EXPLOSION
1 Accident / 14 Days Most of accidents
happened in the small-and-medium sized companies.
TOXIC RELEASE
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Sectors Against Accidents
Chemical manufacturing
Plastic manufacturing
Oil and diesel related manuf.
Chemical material
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Current Situation

• National Fire Administration (NFA) has special
  forces and fire engines for chemical fire
  mitigation.
• Mandatory process safety management for hazardous
  chemical work sites.
• MOEA provides technical assists, such as runaway
  reaction control, process safety management,
  consequence analysis, intrinsic safety design,
  management of change, mechanical integrity,
  dispersion modeling, emergency response and
  incident command system, and fire prevention.
• Mutual aid systems are organized and operated
  through all industrial parks.
• Drills are frequently held.

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Current Situation (Contd)

• Through cooperation with the related government
  unit, eg. Industrial Development Bureau (IDB),
  Council of Labor affairs (COLA), Environmental
  Protection Administration (EPA), National Fire
  Administration (NFA), and Ministry of
  Transportation and Communications (MOTC), ITRI
  provides HAZMAT emergency consultation system and
  has completed the Chinese translation of NAERG
  (North America Emergency Response Guidebook).
• ITRI and TRCA (Taiwan Response Care Association)
  co-established Emergency Response Information
  Center (ERIC) and hope to set up a mutual-aid
  system with three levels (Level I, II, III) in
  Taiwan.

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Major Related Regulations

• COLA
• Hazard communication
• Review and inspection for chemical hazardous
  work sites
• Safety and Health guideline for workplace
  facility
• Dangerous machinery and equipment management
• EPA
• Toxic chemical management act (monitoring,
  inventory, lock-out, work permit, transportation
  permit, emergency response)
• FPA
• Public dangerous goods management act
  (reporting, fire protection, fire-protection
  mutual aid system)
• IDB
• Factory management act (mutual aid system)

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Accomplishments of Safety Program Implementation

• Accident Prevention Aspect
• Implement ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 for creating
  a safer workplace
• Improve Fire Fighting System such like fire
  prevention, hazardous materials management, fire
  agencys emergency response capacity, accidental
  data survey, fire fighting network
• Promote Voluntary Protection Program
• Communicate requirements of regulations and
  guidelines with businesses and stakeholders
• Provide technical assists and trainings such like
  hazard analysis of process, consequence analysis
  etc. for chemical industries particularly

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Emergency Response Procedures

• Status 1At the beginning of accidents, start to
  response
• Status 2When accidents expand, announce to the
  overall
• factory
• Status 3When accidents continually expand,
  report to the
• Administrative Office of
  Industrial Parks, call
• ERIC
• Status 4When accidents overwhelm, report to the
  District
• Emergency Response Commend
  Center
• Status 5 When accidents extremely overwhelm,
  report to
• the National Emergency
  Response Commend
• Center

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National Emergency Response Commend and Report
System
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Recommendations for Safety Policy

• Management Aspect
• Integrate government, business and stakeholders
  to improve safety management
• Provide technical services especially targeted on
  small-sized chemical companies
• Implement ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001
• Facilitate safety culture
• Enhance safety inspections

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Recommendations for Safety Policy (Contd)

• Technical Services Aspect
• Provide integrated safety technologies services ,
  especially targeted on small-medium-sized
  businesses and high risk industries
• Improve self-management system
• Facilitate Mutual Aid System via supply chains
• Enhance commitments of managerial levels from
  factories via technical services
• Implement the techniques of risk assessment,
  consequence analysis, emergency response

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Recommendations for Safety Policy (Contd)

• Trainings and Promotion Aspect
• Communicate regulation requirements with
  small-medium-sized businesses
• Provide target-oriented trainings for specific
  industries
• Edit and publish downloadable technical
  handbooks, quarterly reports,journals etc.for
  businesses
• Broadcast safety and health programs

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Future Goals

• Short-term
• Continually implement risk management program
• Continually enhance safety and health inspections
  
• Continually enhance toxic chemicals management
  program
• Continually enhance Mutual Aid System in
  Industrial Parks such like providing trainings of
  chemicals management, incident response trainings
  and drills etc.
• Continually facilitate the capacity of disaster
  control of district and central governments
• Continually enrich chemicals management database
• Sponsor safety related researches and services
  for chemical industry
• Utilize internet knowledge-service to outreach
  small-medium-sized chemical enterprises

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Future Goals (Contd)

• Long-term
• Upgrade safety culture
• Benchmark to industrialized countries safety
  standards such like injury rate

Prevention
Recovery
Staging
Emergency Response