Taiyuan held a joint environmental incidents emergency drill

Recently, a joint environmental incidents emergency drill was held in Taigang. In the background of the leakage of crude benzene cans in the Taigang Coking Plant, the drill was focused on the early disposal of government departments, the coordination of government and enterprises, and the mobilization of more power on-site rescue.
 
“The leakage of crude benzene cans in our coking plant which was located in Jiancaoping Street...” After received the “dangerous situation”, the Municipal Emergency Office immediately informed the municipal environmental protection and safety supervision units to rush to the scene for rescue. Environmental monitoring personnel determined the meteorological parameters such as wind direction and wind speed on the spot and developed a monitoring plan. The personnel of each monitoring point will report the real-time monitoring data to the emergency monitoring group through the walkie-talkie. The environmental monitoring team will form the first emergency monitoring report and report it to the Environmental Emergency Command. During the process of rescue, the environmental protection inspectors found that the fire-fighting wastewater was flowing, and the inspectors timely reported to the command department and requested the rescue forces. The command immediately mobilized experts and rescue forces to take measures to prevent the "state of affairs" from expanding.
 
As the fire was completely extinguished and the “leakage” on the site was gradually reduced, the environmental emergency monitoring team still conducted atmospheric monitoring in residential areas and downwinds: first, they monitored the fire-fighting wastewater to grasp the initial concentration of pollutants; Secondly, they immediately monitored the ambient air quality and mastered the concentration of pollutants. At the scene of the accident, the comprehensive coordination team will work with the enterprises to clean up the “leakage” materials left in the “accident” site by using chemical absorbent pads and chemical booms, safely transferred them to the emergency pool, and collected the contaminated soil from the surrounding area and sent it to the disposal unit for disposal. After confirmed by the expert group, the downwind of the “accident” site and the ambient air pollutants in the residential area basically reached the background value; after the fire water, pavement pollutants, on-site cofferdams and surrounding soils in the “accident” area were all cleaned up, the joint environmental emergency joint emergency drill came to the end.
 
The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau said that the joint emergency drill was focused on the practicality of the inspection plan. It was purposed to test executive abilities of the personnel, and the emergency action procedure was tested during the exercise. It is of great significance to improve the personnel's risk avoidance, self rescue and mutual rescue abilities for possible environmental events in the future.