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4.2.2. Identifying, notifying and activating (A2 elements)
Response Objectives:
(1) To ensure that operators promptly determine the appropriate emergency class or the level of the response, initiate on-site actions, and notify
and provide updated information to the off-site notification point (see Element A2.4) (4.12).
(2) To promptly notify — through the off-site notification point — all appropriate off-site response organizations, which will initiate the
preplanned and co-ordinated response appropriate to the emergency class or the level of emergency (4.13).
(3) To initiate appropriate emergency response actions upon receipt of notification by another State or the IAEA of an actual or potential
transnational emergency (4.14).
(4) To ensure that — in the event of a transnational emergency — the notifying State forthwith informs directly or through the IAEA those
States that may be affected and the IAEA, and that the notifying State responds to requests from other States and from the IAEA for
information concerning the emergency (4.15).
A2 - IDENTIFYING, NOTIFYING AND ACTIVATING Threat category Responsibility
Elements I II III IV V O L N
A2.1 Arrange for notification points responsible for receiving notification of an actual or potential
radiation emergency that are continuously available to receive any notification or request for assistance
and to initiate an off-site response (4.16).
This should be at a facility used to receive and initiate the off-site response to any type of emergency
(conventional or radiation).
Provide emergency services (fire, law enforcement, ambulance, medical) with instructions/procedures on
how to handle the report of the potential radiation emergency.
A2.2 In jurisdictions in which there is a significant probability of a dangerous source being lost,
abandoned, illicitly removed or transported, arrange that the on-site managers of operations and local
officials responsible for response are aware of the indicators of a potential radiation emergency and aware
of the appropriate notifications and other immediate actions warranted if a radiation emergency is
suspected (4.17).
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