Instructions for external emergency plan exercises
Kosunen, Anna-Mari; Kurvinen, Mika; Lehto, Seppo; Palmén, Mirja; Timonen, Hannu; Tirroniemi, Mika (2020-03-25)
Kosunen, Anna-Mari
Kurvinen, Mika
Lehto, Seppo
Palmén, Mirja
Timonen, Hannu
Tirroniemi, Mika
Ministry of the Interior
25.03.2020
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Under section 48 of the Rescue Act (379/2011) and the decree of the Ministry of the Interior on external emergency plans, rescue departments must organise exercises at least once every three years at high-risk sites such as production plants, railway yards and ports that handle and stockpile dangerous chemicals as well as at nuclear power plants and facilities for extractive waste. Finland has about 200 sites that are required to draw up an external emergency plan and to practise for emergencies regularly.
These instructions streamline and clarify the planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting of exercises on external emergency plans for sites under section 48 of the Rescue Act. The instructions use the term external emergency plan exercise.
Rescue departments are responsible for drawing up external emergency plans and for organising external emergency plan exercises and they are carried out in cooperation with the operator. The Regional State Administrative Agencies are responsible for supervising that these requirements are met. Finland is obliged to report on such plans and exercises to the European Commission under the Seveso III Directive and the Mining Waste Directive.
To complete the exercise, the external emergency plan exercise process includes several stages. The process includes several stages, namely planning, preparation and implementation of the exercise as well as development measures. These instructions serve to harmonise rescue departments’ exercise activities related to the external emergency plans and to clarify the requirements for the exercises.
These instructions streamline and clarify the planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting of exercises on external emergency plans for sites under section 48 of the Rescue Act. The instructions use the term external emergency plan exercise.
Rescue departments are responsible for drawing up external emergency plans and for organising external emergency plan exercises and they are carried out in cooperation with the operator. The Regional State Administrative Agencies are responsible for supervising that these requirements are met. Finland is obliged to report on such plans and exercises to the European Commission under the Seveso III Directive and the Mining Waste Directive.
To complete the exercise, the external emergency plan exercise process includes several stages. The process includes several stages, namely planning, preparation and implementation of the exercise as well as development measures. These instructions serve to harmonise rescue departments’ exercise activities related to the external emergency plans and to clarify the requirements for the exercises.