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TECHNOLOGY TOOLBOX Ensuring a calm response Crisis management benefits from a dose of high technology public immediately after an incident. Every crisis planner ndustrial emergencies have human and environmenand manager should have access to information like this. tal consequences, not to mention business upsets. But, Community notifications: When a crisis occurs, comtechnology can help with hazmat releases, fires, explomunication with responders, the community and employees sions, natural disasters, terrorism and other emergencies. can be a life-or-death matter. Honeywell’s Instant Alert Plus Risk assessment and planning: The best defense is a good for Industrial Facilities is a two-way notification system. offense. Assess what can go wrong and plan a response to Within 15 minutes, the Web-based service sends 100,000 minimize the consequences. Use the U.S. EPA’s Computer30-second secure, customized, instant messages via phone, Aided Management of Emergency Operations (CAMEO) e-mail and pager. It can initiate a conference call for resoftware to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies, sponders and company officials. Employees and neighborwhile ensuring compliance with the chemical inventory rehoods can request help using a simple menu of porting requirements of the Emergency Planoptions. Activated via phone or Internet mesning and Community Right-to-Know Act. sage, a distributed, redundant network sends CAMEO’s database has more than 6,000 Every crisis the information. It integrates with business chemicals, synonyms and trade names, and planner and continuity systems and GIS systems. information about chemical management and manager should Local governments are implementing critical response. Its MARPLOT module have access to warning systems. Contra Costa County, Caplots the geographic area that can be conlif., implemented a Honeywell system after a taminated. Its ALOHA atmospheric model information computer glitch caused a half-hour delay in predicts a dispersion cloud and the hazard to like this. notifying those at risk of toxic fumes released vulnerable locations. A reactivity worksheet during a refinery fire. forecasts any hazards if chemicals mix. Crisis-management systems: ESS Crisis, an emergencyCAMEO Chemicals is an online, abbreviated version of management system from Environmental Support SoluCAMEO that includes the searchable chemical database, tions, addresses mitigation, preparedness, response and recritical response data sheets and reactivity prediction tool. covery. It provides information, resources and processes for Emergency responder systems: The Wireless Informaplanning, training, exercises and real-time mobilization. It tion System for Emergency Responders (WISER), from tracks personnel training and certifications, availability and the U.S. National Laboratory of Medicine, has information deployment durations. It provides geographic information about 400 hazardous substances and includes identification about what lies in its path of the emergency with Microsoft’s support, physical and chemical properties, health data and Virtual Earth, ESRI’s ArcInfo and other GIS and GPS advice about containment and suppression. The information systems. It generates automatic messages and tracks crisis is readily accessible through an intelligent synopsis engine. communications and tasks. The system manages briefings, WISER v. 3.0 includes radioisotope data and reference audits, damage assessments and recovery efforts. ESS Crisis materials. It provides a searchable electronic version of the meets the requirements of the National Incident ManageU.S. Department of Transportation’s Emergency Response ment System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System Guidebook (ERG). Accessible through laptops and personal (ICS). digital assistants, emergency responders gain instant access to the information needed for response to hazmat incidents. ERG helps responders identify hazmat classifications, deE-mail Contributing Editor Sheila Kennedy, managing director of termine the best response, and protect themselves and the Additive Communications, at Sheila@addcomm.com. For more information, see: www.epa.gov/ceppo/cameo www.honeywell.com/instantalert February 2008 I http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov http://hazmat.dot.gov/pubs/erg/ gydebook.htm www.PLANTSERVICES.com www.microsoft.com/virtualearth www.esri.com 31 http://wiser.nlm.nih.gov http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth http://www.epa.gov/ceppo/cameo http://www.esri.com http://hazmat.dot.gov/pubs/erg/gydebook.htm http://www.honeywell.com/instantalert http://hazmat.dot.gov/pubs/erg/gydebook.htm http://www.PLANTSERVICES.com

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Plant Services - February 2008 Contents From the Editor Letters The PS Files Up and Running Crisis Corner What Works Asset Manager: Why Six Sigma? Technology Toolbox: Ensuring a Calm Response Cover Story: Best Practices Awards Lubricants: A Slick Success Story Motors: Reliable Torque Compressors: Before You Call for Help Web Hunter: Exploiting Intellectual Capital In the Trenches Product Picks Classifieds Fast Facts Energy Expert: Energy, Climate and Food

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