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Safety and sustainability in the chemical supply chain

Craig Thomson | Associate Director the-ncec.com/emergencyresponse

Four quadrants of emergency response Compliance How will Brexit affect your supply chain? Risk Management Sustainability What next? Tools to help

Agenda

NCEC – the four quadrants of emergency response

Four quadrants of emergency response

NCEC in numbers

• 45 years
• 8,000 calls
• 550 companies
• Multiple languages
• 24/7 operations

Perspectives on emergency response

Compliance

Risk Management Sustainability

What are the regulations?

China

• Local telephone number
• Mandarin language response
• 24/7 availability
• Dedicated emergency response team
• Physically answered in China
• China’s National Registration Centre for

Chemicals (NRCC)

European poison centres

Appointed body Poison centre Poison centre Poison centre Notifier

Poison centres and emergency numbers

• Medical advice only (often only to medical

professionals)

• In-country number only (no cross-border/global

support)

• No chemical spill advice
• No multilingual capability
• 24hr operations and resilience capability is varied
• Best practice:
• Two numbers on SDS section 1.4 / in-country numbers
• One emergency response number on transport docs, labels,

etc.

How will Brexit affect your supply chain?

Perspectives on emergency response

Compliance

Risk Management

Sustainability

Risk

Risk – what do you see?

Chemical exposure Damage to assets Cost of recovery Damage to shipment Missed delivery Supply chain confidence Impact on reputation Non- compliance Injury to driver Risk to public Pollution to a stream Pollution to land

Risk – reputational risks

Source credit: https://www.latimes.com/cgnews-parts-of-maryland-city-under-shelter-after-hazmat-incident-20150530-story.html

Risk – “We are too good to be affected”

“The set procedures we have in place for handling dangerous goods shipments, are stringent enough to prevent significant

• damage. In the unlikely event of a DG

shipment being damaged, all staff involved with the handling have rigorous training and sufficient equipment to deal with the incident.”

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ROI – cost of an incident

• Accidents at work cost UK $14 billion a year
• 2010/11 – 175 people killed at work
• 200,000 reportable injuries (each >3 days off

work)

• Major injuries: fractures, amputations,

chemical burns, loss of consciousness

ROI – cost of doing nothing

4 x fire trucks for 6 hours = $7,608 12 hours public health agency time = $1,551 36 hours of plant shut down = $277,080 Clean up contractor = $18,472 Fine = $38,483 Legal costs = $10,776 TOTAL = $353,970

ROI – cost of a farm incident

Somerset – 2 Feb 2012. Firefighters battled the blaze for seven hours to prevent the fire from spreading to two other barns containing 25 tonnes of chemical fertiliser and one tonne of grain.

2 x fire appliances for 3 hours = $1,879 12 hours of environmental agency time = $1,533 Clean up contractor (6 hours) = $9,120 Fine = $38,000 Legal costs = $11,400 TOTAL = $61,932

ROI – placing a value on mitigation

Health benefits $3,072,601

• Health service savings

$10,024

• Reduction in lost work days or days lost through restricted activity

$8,132

• Reduction of 1 fatality (road, site, home, etc.)

$2,493,947

• Reduction in 2 serious medical issues

$560,499 Time savings $1,112,395

• Reduction in time spent by emergency services

$205,636

• Reduction in time roads closed or heavily congested

$906,758 Environmental benefits $103,122

• Avoided Environment Agency involvement 10% of spills, traffic incidents and fires it would normally need

to attend $2,764

• One case of serious aquatic damage avoided

$100,358 Total $4,288,119

Perspectives on emergency response

Compliance Risk Management

Sustainability

Best practice – why is it required?

• Providing a benchmark against

which to measure

• Raising standards across

industry

• Educating supply chain

Best practice – cefic role

cefic Guidelines

• Level 1 (telephone-based) emergency

response should be available at any time when an emergency occurs.

• The Level 1 system must have the ability to

receive calls in the local language, and English.

• The caller’s connection to an emergency

response expert should be performed as quickly as reasonably possible.

cefic Guidelines

• The Level 1 responder must have access to

appropriate information and networks in order to seek additional support.

• Operatives should have a qualification that is

sufficient to give them expert knowledge and understanding of chemicals.

• Experienced in handling emergencies and can

provide full advice to a variety of incidents, which should be proportional.

cefic Guidelines

• The Level 1 responder should have sufficient

training and experience to equip them with the practical elements of responding to an incident.

• Level 1 responders should have awareness of

the different regulatory regimes affecting the transport and supply of chemicals.

What next?

✓ Check your compliance (including poison centres) ✓ Revisit your supply chain risks ✓ Health check your risk management performance ✓ Check your emergency response systems measures up

Global 24/7 telephone emergency response helpline Business case for emergency response Global regulatory requirements

Tools to help

Visit: the-ncec.com/resources

Guidelines for level 1 chemical emergency response

Contact me E: craig.thomson@ricardo.com T: +44 (0)1235 753 068 W: www.the-ncec.com

Craig Thomson Associate Director