How do emergency managers and first responders verify inventories, understand the hazards, and build into the emergency operation chemical planning for fixed

facilities? When visiting facilities, what are the items that responders and chemical planners should learn and familiarize themselves with, and common chemical process 

maintenance and safety concerns that could trigger additional conversations.

Taking chemical inventories and planning, this course will be in depth training on facility worst and alternative chemical release scenarios, identifying threat zones,

vulnerable populations, how to determine sheltering in place versus evacuation and incorporating this information into chemical annexes and county emergency operation

plans.

The chemical planning information will then be applied to hazardous materials responses for both fixed facility and transportation chemical releases. During a hazardous

materials incident, how is the information from chemical inventories and commodity flow studies applied to a chemical release response. What is the role of the responsible

party, responder and emergency managers, cleanup contractors and which agencies will be involved?