The other day I was audited on our Emergency Management Plan. During the session, the auditor and I discussed about the frequency to conduct evacuation drills. At our site we do one exercise yearly as a minimum, but I didn’t recall where the requirement came from other than the Emergency Management Plan itself. The discussion ended in that at least one drill yearly is in general good practice. I kept thinking about this issue and decided to start a conversation (Emergency drills: how … [Read more...] about Emergency Drill Frequency

A couple of years ago we conducted an emergency exercise on site where we simulated a chlorine gas leak.  Chlorine is a toxic gas that is widely used for water treatment across a number of industries.  When a leak occurs it is important to notify all site occupants and also direct them to a safe assembly area or evacuation point. In an open site like ours, this safe area may be different to the standard safe areas in the evacuation plan given the fact that the wind can direct the toxic gas plume … [Read more...] about Learning from an emergency exercise on site

Welcome to the EVA blog, we hope this space can serve you to better manage emergencies in the workplace. As a matter of introduction, ASSISTEM have developed EVA Emergency to allow you to better conduct emergency exercises (e.g. fire drills) and assist in the management of real emergencies. As emergency coordinators in an industrial plant we realized that the traditional alarm and roll call systems could really benefit from using new technologies. We took the decision to develop a system … [Read more...] about Welcome to our emergency coordination and management blog