Management of industrial crisis: how to prepare it?
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The city of Feyzin with its 9,347 inhabitants is located in the “Vallée da la chimie” (Chemical Valley) south of Lyon and had a big chemical accident in 1966. The city’s Mayor and Prefect are still responsible for the people’s safety and have a approach of ready-to-use crisis management plans for industrial and environmental hazards. In the past, industrial hazards were ignored until accidents such as 1966 in Feyzin, 1976 in Seveso, 1984 in Bophal, 1986 in Chernobyl and 2001 in Toulouse, but today there is quite a bit of public awareness. The bias of Feyzin is that the industry cannot be moved in the countryside and entire districts cannon be sacrificed. The city has made several hazard maps and actions plans for normal running time, such as health observation, noise protection walls, practice of escape and confinement and training of city’s staff, for crisis time, such as safety plans for all important building, infrastructure and city districts and for the time after a crisis, such as general crisis management plans. These plans were worked out in workshops with numerous local partners, including companies and industry. The population is regularly informed by escape plan booklets, behaviour cards etc. There is also a strict communication plan for the case of emergency.
Newsletter 7 on Workshop 6: Risk management and training
