Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Response: Other Sites of Interest

Canada
Denmark
Germany
Hungary
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
International Organisations
Other Organisations

 

Environment Canada, Environmental Emergencies - http://www.ec.gc.ca/ee-ue/whats_new/whats_new_e.asp

Emergency Preparedness Canada - http://www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca/

Danish Emergency Management Agency - http://www.beredskabsstyrelsen.dk/uk/

Danish Emergency Management Agencys special site on Chemical alert - http://kemi.brs.dk/
This site is only available in Danish. The information on this site is covered broadly by the above mentioned link.

Information center on poisoning - http://www.hosp.dk/BBHarbejd-amed.nsf/SkalKategorier/Velkomst
This information center is situated in the Department of working environment at Bispebjerg Hospital. This site is also only available in Danish.

Federal Environmental Agency: information pages to Plant Safety and Major Accidents Control -
http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/anlagen/eng/index.html

The German Major Accident Commission (Störfall-Kommission) - http://www.sfk-taa.de/berichte_reports/berichte_sfk/berichte_sfk.htm
The German Major Accident Commission (Störfall-Kommission) and the Technical Committee for Plant Safety are advisory councils of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety working on issues related to prevention and mitigation of industrial accidents. The main activities of the Commission, the Committee and its working groups are the preparation of guidance documents on the implementation of the Seveso-Directive in Germany and the development of other reports, tools and guidelines in the context of prevention and mitigation of industrial accidents. All documents are available on this web-site.

ZEMA - http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/zema/eng/index.html
ZEMA is the Central Reporting and Evaluation Office for Hazardous Incidents and Incidents in Process Engineering Facilities (Zentrale Melde- und Auswertestelle für Störfälle und Störungen in verfahrenstechnischen Anlagen - ZEMA) in Germany. ZEMA records, evaluates and publishes in annual reports all events which must be reported to the authorities pursuant to the 12th Federal Immission Control Ordinance. Such reportable events are sub-divided according to their hazard potential into major accidents and disturbance of normal operation. The systematic recording and evaluation of events will provide information which acts as an important basis for a further development of the state of the art of safety technology. Between 1980 and 2000, 336 events were registered in the ZEMA database. Statistical evaluations are available for the period 1991 to 1999.

National General Directorate for Disaster Management - http://www.reliefweb.int/ocha_ol/programs/response/mcdunet/prov468.html

Chief Inspectorate of Technical Safety - http://www.mbf.hu/szakterulet9.html

AIDA - Ayuda a la interpretación del Anexo I del Real Decreto 1254/1999 relativo a los accidentes graves (Directiva SEVESO II) - http://www.proteccioncivil.org/peq/aida_presen.htm

Health and Safety Executive - Control of Major Accident Hazards - http://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/

US EPA's Chemical Preparedness and Prevention Office (CEPPO) - http://www.epa.gov/swercepp

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - http://www.fema.gov

European Commission's Emergency Preparedness and Response - http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/seveso/index.htm

Major Accident Hazards Bureau (MAHB) of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission -
http://mahbsrv.jrc.it

Pan American Health Organization - SUMA Project - http://www.paho.org/english/dd/ped/pedcont.htm

ReliefWeb - A project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - http://ochaonline.un.org/

World Meterological Organization - Emergency Response Activities - http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/reports/Expert-ERA-0498.html

The Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange (EPIX) - http://epix.hazard.net/ 

University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service (CES) Disaster Services - http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~disaster

The Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder - http://www.colorado.edu/hazards

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