Emergency Response Training
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One of the many checks and balances for our work within the nuclear industry involves us having to complete an Emergency Response Training Exercise, ideally every year but at the least every third year.
Working in partnership with EDF
Our most recent exercise happened in September when we partnered with EDF Energy to stage an ‘accident’ near their Sizewell plant called “Operation Moonwalk.”
These emergency response exercises test and check company compliance with current transport regulations and consider the emergency response procedures in place for both organisations.
The scenario included providing one of our DAF 18ton GVW curtain-sided tail-lift vehicles with one of our trained Class 7 ADR drivers who had to pretend he had ‘collided’ with another vehicle and knocked his head and was feeling a little dazed.
Once a call was made by our operative to our office to say there had been a road traffic accident our emergency responses were initiated. This involved reaching out to the necessary emergency services, the consignor and customer (EDF were both on this occasion), RADSAFE, Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), our Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) and our Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor (DGSA).
The exercise is tracked in real time as all those involved walk through the processes and steps involved, covering much of the day.
Our operatives performed really well within their duties and worked hard to give support, advice and assistance to those involved. And we were really pleased that once again our emergency responses were able to successfully meet the needs and demands of the exercise and a completed report could be readied to send on to the ONR.
The exercise is tracked in real time as all those involved walk through the processes and steps involved, covering much of the day.
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