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Appendix 12
OUTLINES OF EMERGENCY PLANS AND PROCEDURES
The response to a radiation emergency may be caused by or may involve different types of
hazards, including natural (e.g. storms), technological (e.g. radiation), biological or criminal
activity (e.g. theft, sabotage, terrorist attacks). The response to each of these hazards probably
involves different response organizations with their own response terminology, cultures and plans.
Consequently, the plans and procedures for response to all hazards should be structured into a
coherent and interlocking system (see Figure 4 in Section 2.1.7).
The composition and size of a response may vary considerably from one emergency to another,
involving elements from the national, regional, local and operator levels and conventional response
organizations such as law enforcement. Emergency preparations should allow for the response
elements from all these levels and organizations to be quickly integrated, expanded or contracted to
meet the requirements of the particular emergency. Consequently, plans at all these levels must
have compatible:
(1) terminology;
(2) concepts of operations;
(3) emergency operations management;
(4) organization and functional descriptions;
(5) co-ordination, activation and integration;
(6) facilities, communications;
(7) procedures, methods and equipment used for performing common or integrated tasks;
(8) training and exercises; and
(9) maintenance and quality assurance.
The following are outlines of proposed plans and implementing procedures. The plan outlines
presented here take essentially a “process” approach for developing an emergency plan, to
respond to an emergency (Section 3 of the plans) and to develop and maintain a response
capability (Section 4 of the plans). The plans should contain information that other
organizational elements (e.g. States, ministries, local governments facilities, teams) need in
order to develop an effective response capability and to ensure that the plans are compatible.
Detailed information or information that may change frequently should be provided by
reference to other publications available to planners. Other formats or structures can be
entirely adequate provided that they are comprehensive and compatible in the above areas
with the other national and local emergency plans. Information for completing various
sections of the plans is provided in italicized text. Important emergency preparedness
elements from Section 4.2 are referenced in curved brackets. However, the plans should
address all the appropriate elements in Section 4.2.
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