off-site emergency

The organization which is responsible for off-site emergency planning, preparedness and response in a specific province.

Off-site emergency plans are designed to restrict human exposure to ionising radiation.

They shall also prepare an off-site emergency plan.

The municipal, provincial and federal levels of government are responsible for off-site emergency planning, preparedness and response.

Normally, any power plant licensed by the Federal commission must have an approved off-site emergency plan and must conduct an evacuation drill every two years.

The personnel in this zone are responsible for organizing off-site emergency response teams in the event of an emergency.

The ONR decides when off-site emergency plans are required for areas that pose a foreseeable risk.

Local authorities are responsible for preparing an off-site emergency plan for any premises in their area with an operator's emergency plan.

Passive safety features would eliminate the need for redundant back-up systems, containment structures and off-site emergency plants, drastically cutting costs.

Each installation must also have on-site and off-site emergency plans to protect workers, the general public, the environment, etc. in the case of a radiological emergency.

A Lilco spokesman, Joseph McDonnell, said dismantling the off-site emergency plan would save the utility $8 million a year.

Off-site Emergency Plan for Point Lepreau Generating Station.

For nuclear emergencies within their own boundaries, provincial governments have primary responsibility for off-site emergency planning and response to protect public health, property and the environment.

Health and safety risks are governed by engineering design, employee training and by the availability of on-site and off-site emergency response and medical facilities.

Furthermore during the whole history of over 50 years there has never been an incident which would have required an Off-Site Emergency Plan to be put into action.

The review, PNRA said, was to include site studies, safety systems, operators' training, emergency power systems and off-site emergency preparedness plans.

Reference was made above to so-called CIMAH sites, major hazardous installations for which on-site and off-site emergency plans must be prepared.

Local authority off-site emergency plans - Radiation Regulations 2001 (REPPIR)

Local authorities play a key role by preparing, reviewing, revising and testing off-site emergency plans for dealing with the off-site consequences of major accidents at top-tier sites.

TEPCO had, in the event of nuclear disaster, an off-site emergency headquarters just 5km from the plant that was not radiation-proof, and so was effectively useless.

ERCs are to function as focal points for local mutual aid associations and are to provide 24-hour off-site emergency capabilities covering industrial or transportation-related chemical incidents.

Organisation of emergency measures Countries concerned consult one another with a view to co-ordinating their off-site emergency plans relating to a hazardous installation capable of causing transfrontier damage.

Increased consultation with stakeholders, primarily affected licensees and law enforcement agencies that support the licensees in terms of off-site emergency response has been in a continuous mode since September 2001.

Federal authorities have also taken control of an off-site emergency recovery system, where e-mails and phone records from MF Global were stored, said two people who also spoke on condition of anonymity.

The information for people who could be affected by a major accident at the establishment must be supplied 'within a reasonable period of time after the off-site emergency plan has been prepared for the establishment'.