A Guide for Assessing Community Emergency Response Needs and Capabilities for Hazardous Materials Releases (2011) / Chapter Skim
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For example, smaller jurisdictions with extremely high potential consequences will want to increase the emergency response capability beyond that listed. Step 15 Record the desired Response Capability Tier for each scenario in your hazardous materials portfolio based on the potential consequences.
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The impact on consequences can increase by as much as five times, depending on the difference between the desired and available emergency Response Capability Tiers. Step 16 Record the ERC factor for each scenario in your hazardous materials portfolio based on the values in Table 17.
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considers each of the major outcomes: assess, manage, rescue, and control. The times associated with each of these outcomes consider the time required to: • Assess the nature of the hazmat incident; • Transport the incident commander to the scene so he or she can start managing the scene; • Rescue the number of individuals specified by the tier level; and • Transport the specialized hazmat emergency response team to the scene so they can take over incident management.
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Appendix E contains a more detailed explanation of response time assessment, including how to use GIS to determine response coverage areas. Step 18 Calculate the RTF by outcome for each scenario in your hazardous materials portfolio using the values in Table 19, based in turn on your Jurisdictional Class.
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