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PERENCANAAN DAN KESIAPAN OPERASIONAL

(MENGURANGI RISIKO KESEHATAN DARI INSIDEN)

Common measures to reduce the health risks of chemical incidents include:

 locating chemical sites away from centres of population;

 registering all chemicals in commercial establishments with a hazard inventory to ensure rapid identification of the
released chemical;

 regularly evaluating plans and their implementation;

 storing reduced amounts of chemicals;

 clearly labelling all chemicals in transit;

 rapidly notifying the chemical incident emergency services in the event of a chemical release;

 regularly surveying and standardizing the reporting of incidents, including small “routine” ones;

 decontaminating land or water already contaminated by waste disposal;

 preventing or containing water run-off from fire-fighting;

 constructing drainage ditches or holding tanks to contain leaked liquid chemicals.