SAFETY, HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN - MIRMgate

D8
Suggested Format for an Emergency Preparedness/Action Plan
NOTIFICATION FLOWCHART
• develop one per classification level in the Emergency Detection Plan
(see ‘Emergency Detection Plan’ overleaf), and then one overall flowchart with colour-coding
• show information flow up and down the flowchart
• show prioritized order of notification
• include all contact details and alternatives (relief and substitute personnel)
• limit one individual’s notification responsibility to four others
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
• Include vicinity maps
• List significant downstream features
EMERGENCY DETECTION PLAN
(See suggestions for ‘Emergency Detection and Evaluation’ that follows)
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Who decides and declares an emergency
• Command structure
• Responsibility matrix
• TSF owner responsibilities
• Local authority responsibility
• Fire department responsibility
• Traffic department responsibility
• Paramedic responsibility
• Medical facilities responsibility
• Community leaders responsibility
• Media responsibilities/guidelines
ZONE OF INFLUENCE MAPS
• Define potential zones of influence (via dam-break analyses or by inspection depending upon level
of risk as appropriate)
• People inside these potential inundation areas are to be listed in the evacuation plans
EVACUATION PLANS
• One for every tailings dam/complex
• Who activates evacuation (also during Level B emergency) (Readiness)?
• All contact information for the employees, residents and business premises etc. within the
inundation area is to be collected
• Source sufficient transportation
• Alternative accommodation, food, drinking water etc. is to be sourced
• Communication for evacuees
EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN
• Shut down of operations
• Alarm systems
• Disaster response
• Access routes
• Evacuation plan (as above)
• Security for evacuees and property
• Traffic control
Issued by the Anglo Technical Division page 46 of 47