Radioactive Material Transportation:
Transport Information Available to Emergency Responders
Emergency Response
- Local Responders First on Scene
- Coordination Begins Here
- Responsibilities
- Rescue Injured
- Extinguish Fires
- Provide First Aid/CPR
- Isolate Area
- Make Notifications to those with assets
- Shipper
- UHP, DEQ, DES, Federal Agencies
Emergency Response Assets
Local
- Emergency Services (Fire, Police, Medical)
- Licensee, Shipper, Cleanup Contractors
- State
- Division of Emergency Services
- Utah Highway Patrol HAZMAT
- Division of Radiation Control
- Federal
- Department of Energy
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- HAZMAT team may help control incident
- Prevent spread of Contamination
- Limit Exposure
- Evaluate package integrity
Survey/decontaminate responders or victims
Role of DRC
- Resource to on-scene responders to:
- Define the problem
- Recommend Cleanup strategies
- Evaluate package integrity
- Survey/decontaminate responders or victims
- Regulate Cleanup and Material Disposition
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