Chris Bajwa Transport Safety Unit Regulatory Infrastructure and Transport Safety Section

1. Regional Workshop for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material in the CaribbeanModule 4.3Emergency Response Primer 2-6 June 2014Panama City, Panama Chris Bajwa Transport Safety Unit Regulatory Infrastructure and Transport Safety Section Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste SafetyDepartment of Nuclear Safety and Security

2. What We Are Going to Discuss • Goals of Emergency Response • Additional Resources • For further reading: • Criteria for Decision Making • Organizing the Response

3. Goals of Emergency Response • Save lives, Regain control • Prevent or mitigate consequences • Prevent occurrence of deterministic effects • Minimize occurrence of stochastic effects • Minimize non-radiological effects • Protect property and environment • Prepare for return to normal Deterministic effectsare those in which the severity of the effect varies with the dose and for which a threshold value exists. Stochastic effectsare associated with long-term, low-level (chronic) exposure to radiation.

4. Integrated Planning Concept

5. Additional Resources 5

6. Safety Standards in EPR

7. EPR series and links for reference!

8. Questions? Thank you

9. Criteria for Decision Making 9

10. General - Generic criteria for decision making Reference level below which there is no increase in the risk of cancer justifying any protective action (20 to 100 mSv)

11. General – Protective Actions

12. Minimizing stochastic (long-term) health effects – Generic Criteria

13. System of Generic & Operational Criteria 2 1

14. Operational Intervention Levels (OILs) OILs – predetermined default operational triggers for quantities, measured by a field monitoring instrument or determined by laboratory analysis, at which Protective response actions SHOULD BE TAKEN Dose rate above the ground Food and water concentrations Dose rate from thyroid Dose rate from skin contamination

15. Organizing the Response 15

16. Generic scene setup 16

17. In practice 17

18. Inner Cordoned Area - Outside

19. Inner Cordoned Area - Indoors

20. Organizing the Response • The Incident Command System: • Is a standardized, on-scene, all-hazards incident management concept. • Allows for the integration of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures and communications operating within a common organizational structure. • Enables a coordinated response among various jurisdictions and functional agencies, both public and private. • Establishes common processes for planning and managing resources. • An incident is . . . • . . . an occurrence, caused by either human or natural phenomena, that requires response actions to prevent or minimize loss of life, or damage to property and/or the environment.

21. Incident Command System • A system of standardized: • Organization • Policies • Processes • Documentation • Used for every incident • 95% of incidents are resolved within a single operational period • Modular, scalable nature of ICS means that not every incident requires a full organizational structure or planning process

22. Command and General Staff Incident Commander Public Information Officer Incident Management Team = Command and General Staff Members Liaison Officer Safety Officer Operations Section Planning Section Logistics Section Finance/Admin Section Incident Management Team