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Facility/
location Functions Characteristics
Notification
point
Operational
support centre
(OSC)
Public
information
centre (PIC)
Radiological
monitoring
and
assessment
centre
(RMAC)
Referral
hospital
Relocation/
reception
centres
This is the facility where notification of an
actual or potential radiation emergency is
received and from which the appropriate
off-site response is initiated (see Elements
A2.1 and A2.7).
Operational control of personnel
performing tasks within the facility (e.g.
environmental monitoring, health physics,
damage control, and fire fighting) and coordination
and providing health physics
support for personnel responding from offsite
(see Elements A1.1 and A3.6).
Co-ordination of all information released
to the media concerning the emergency by
the facility, local governments and national
governments. Staffed by representatives of
all these organizations (see Element A9.1).
Co-ordination of the radiological
monitoring, sampling and assessment
provided by all response organizations
(facility, local governments, national
governments) (see Element A7.3).
Provides highly specialized treatment to
exposed and/or contaminated people, as well
as for people with combined injuries as a
result of the radiation emergency.
Location for initial reception, monitoring,
decontamination, and registration of the
evacuated public. Provides or arranges for
humanitarian support (e.g. food, housing).
emergencies, it will most likely be located in
an area that is secure, safe and convenient for
directing operations.
Activation time: within 1 hour of declaration
of an emergency
Must be continuously (24 hours a day/7 days a
week) operational, in a secure location, have
redundant power and secure communications.
This should be the facility used to receive
notification of and initiate the off-site
response to conventional emergencies (e.g.
fires). If located within the emergency zones,
it should be habitable during a severe
emergency at the associated threat category I
or II facility.
Within the facility security boundary;
secure/reliable communications with the
control room, with teams within the facility
and with off-site responders (e.g. fire
brigade); sufficient room to assemble, equip
and prepare teams; a location that will
probably remain habitable under emergency
conditions, continuous monitoring of radiation
levels; ready access to equipment, instruments
and protective clothing needed by response
teams.
Activation time: within 30 minutes of
declaration of an emergency.
Located in the vicinity of the emergency with
space and infrastructure to support media and
conduct media briefings. For threat category I,
it is a pre-designated facility outside the UPZ.
Activation time: within 4 hours of
declaration of an emergency requiring the
facility.
Location to be determined at the time of
emergency based on radiological and
operational considerations.
Activation time: within 24 hours of
declaration of an emergency requiring the
facility.
Hospital that specializes in treatment
(haematology, surgery) of radiation induced
injures. If there is not such a hospital in the State,
national arrangements should be in place to
request treatment at such a facility through the
IAEA or WHO under Assistance Convention.
Located in an existing facility (e.g. school).
For threat category I and II, it should be
beyond the UPZ boundary.
Response Facilities established by various response Provisions for effective co-ordination with the
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