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PERENCANAAN DAN KESIAPAN OPERASIONAL

(PERENCANAAN KESEHATAN MASYARAKAT)

Planning for major incidents and disasters has been comprehensively developed throughout much of the world. In most

countries, there is a general plan covering major incidents and disasters. In addition, there is often a general plan covering
the roles of the emergency services in chemical incidents.

There are usually also major incident plans in hospitals that cover most types of incidents. However, public-health plans to

deal with chemical incidents are usually nonexistent or poorly developed.

The public-health chemical incident plan needs to take account of four different scenarios:

 a release from a fixed site: this will usually be a registered hazardous site;

 a detected release of a known chemical from a non-fixed site such as a road tanker (which may not be clearly labelled as

carrying hazardous material);

 a detected release of an unknown chemical: typically, this will occur in releases
from sites not on the hazardous site inventory, or with unknown combustion products from a chemical fire;

 a silent release, where the release is unknown or suspected from other routes.

The plan will also be significantly improved if key members of the local community are involved throughout the process.