Title: Corporate Health and Safety ArcelorMittal
1Corporate Health and Safety ArcelorMittal
RS 6 Emergencies and Incidents Draft date Oct
5, 2011 Rev 1
2Summary
- General subjects regarding Emergencies
Incidents - Definitions and terms
- FPA Questions
- Procedures
- Incidents
- Alcohol and Drugs
3 General subjects regarding Emergencies
Incidents
- Rail emergencies can include fires, explosions,
derailments, leaks, molten metal breakouts - Calcium carbide
- Chlorine gas
- Molten steel
- Molten iron
- Collisions with vehicles carrying fuels, gases,
liquids - Serious rail incidents are very infrequent but
when they occur they are often catastrophic - Emergencies can happen on and off the site
impacting the workforce and community - Impacts from production processes may also occur
Recommendations and good examples !
Sites should have rail incidents as an integral
element in their Emergency Response Plans
4Definitions and terms (1/3 )
- EmergencyAny situation where assistance is
needed to respond to people damage to equipment
or a loss in production or process. - Derailment A derailment is an accident on a
railway in which a rail vehicle, or part or all
of a train, leaves the tracks on which it is
travelling, with consequent damage and in many
cases injury and/or death. Can be caused by poor
housekeeping, weather conditions, poor track
maintenance, worn train car wheels, damaged
switch, going too fast or careless train
operation.
Frozen Switch
Poor Housekeeping
5Definitions and terms (2/3 )
- Emergency ST 013, 016 and 017
- A series of AM global standards regarding
emergency response. They are found on the Am
intranet site in the HS home page. - Train Control Center The location where train
movements and direction is controlled, in larger
sites this station is mannned 24/ 7. This is
normally the station called in the event of an
emergency or incident requiriong asistance. - Anomaly
- Any situation out of the ordinary.
- This can be a maintenance repair need,
- a damaged wagon, a bad section of
- rail, a near miss of a vehicle crossing
- in front of a train movement etc.
Recommendations and good examples !
- Do a comprehensive risk assessment for potential
rail incidents - Implement control measures from the assessment
6FPA questions Emergency and rail L1Q14Have
emergency response plans been written for rail
related incidents?
- See also standard Emergency ST 013, 016 and 017.
- There must be a procedure which describes the
steps to take in case of railway emergency. - The safety of employees, contractors, the public
and community shall take priority during any
emergency or railway safety occurrence. - Employees and contractors shall not place
themselves at risk of injury when carrying out an
investigation, coordination and occurrence site
recovery work and should take necessary
precautions against - Unstable rolling stock, infrastructure and other
structures - Dangerous goods and fire
- Moving machinery including other trains
- Overhead traction and other electrical wires
- Compressed air
- Wreckage including sharp or jagged edges
- Blood-borne pathogen exposure
- The existence of human and other remains
Recommendations and good examples !
- Use emergency procedure to
train personnel
7FPA questions Emergency and rail L1Q14 Have
emergency response plans been written for rail
related incidents?
- Train crew, if a train is involved
- Advise the Track Train Control Center
- Advise the Train Management/ Supervisor
- Advise emergency services if required
- Ensure the safety and security of the train in
accordance with safeworking procedures
Recommendations and good examples !
8FPA questions Emergency and rail L1Q14 Have
emergency response plans been written for rail
related incidents?
- Provide a warning and ensure the safety of other
trains in accordance with safeworking procedures
if required - Determine access requirements to the occurrence
site - Maintain communications with the Train Control
Centre - Maintain communications with the Train Management
- Make sure that emergency services, the Train
Control Centre and the Train Management Officer
have been advised of dangerous goods - If necessary to evacuate, and safe to do so, the
train crew shall take the Dangerous Goods
documentation with them in order it is available
to the emergencies services - Warn others of any dangers present
- Assist those in danger to move to a place of
safety
9 FPA questions Emergency and rail L1Q15 Have
formal communications been done to all employees
on the emergency procedures and have those been
addressed to include employees, contractors and
visitors?
- Employees and Contractors
- Advise the Train Control Center
- Advise the Train Management
- Warn others of any dangers present
- Advise emergency services if required
- Assist those in danger to move to a place of
safety - Assist other employees and contractors when
required.
Recommendations and good examples !
- Have good training and awareness
- Include education of workforce and community
- Involvement with local emergency services
10 FPA questions Anomalies and incidents reporting
L2Q9 and L3Q4 Is there a formalized system for
anomalies reporting?
- Every anomaly must be reported in an system. If
there is a safety device not working properly,
quick and direct action should be taken to avoid
any possible accident. - Employees must not operate equipment that is
unsafe and must be required to remove equipment
from service, to be repaired or replaced. Only
qualified personnel are to move unsafe equipment. - All inputs like incidents, accidents, audits,
inspections and other reports must be analyzed
and treated efficiently (corrective and
preventive actions).
Recommendations and good examples !
- Have good inspection programs
- Report all near misses no matter how small,
something small could result in something major
happening - Actively participate in audit process, the life
you save may be your own
11FPA questions Emergency drills
- L4 Q2Are yearly emergency drills conducted to
test Rail Emergency Response Plans?
Recommendations and good examples !
- Choose most likely and most severe scenarios for
best preparedness. - Involve external services (fire brigades, mobile
crane services, ) in the exercise. - Add typical risks of steel making processes to
the exercise (e.g. CO-gas area, hot liquid slag
or metal, heavy products (e.g. slabs, blooms,
coils) carbide, hazardous liquids etc.
12FPA questions Emergency drills
- L4 Q3Are the lessons learnt from the emergency
drills included in corrective action plans and
the deviations communicated to all people
involved?
Recommendations and good examples !
- Make it as realistic as possible and include the
whole external und internal requirements (e.g.
crisis management, alerts to be given, ) - Debriefing after exercise with a viewing from
different angles What went good? What can be
done better? - Follow-up of corrective action plans!
- Focus especially on weaknesses of previous
exercise during next exercise.
13Alcohol or Intoxicants are prohibited!
- Use or possession of alcohol or intoxicants is
prohibited on AM property. Other items are
prohibited that at a minimum include - Use of medications that adversely affect
alertness, coordination, reaction, response, or
safety - Possession or use of illegal substances
- All workers must be fit an able to do their job
- All workers should be medically fit
Horseplay is prohibited!
14 The best antidote against emergencies is
PREVENTION gt Lets all exercise the utmost
caution to plan prevention into the safety
process to avoid emergencies. gt Lets also be
well prepared in the unlikely event our
prevention actions fail, so no harm will come to
our people, equipment or processes. Thank you!