The Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

[F1 Emergency plans N.I.

3.— (1) Before the carriage of a package begins, the duty holder shall make an adequate emergency plan designed to secure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the restriction of exposure to ionising radiation and the health and safety of persons who may be affected by a radiation emergency identified by the duty holder’s assessment under regulation 8(1) of the 2017 Regulations.

(2) But sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply if the duty holder’s assessment reveals no radiation emergency may arise during the carriage of a package.

(3) When preparing an emergency plan, the duty holder shall take into account—

(a) the steps the duty holder has taken in accordance with regulation 8(3) of the 2017 Regulations; and

(b) any variable factors which might affect the severity of the emergency.

(4) The emergency plan shall—

(a) contain the information specified in sub-paragraph (5); and

(b) be drawn up having regard to the principles and purposes set out in paragraph 4.

(5) The information is—

(a) the name or position of the person authorised to set emergency procedures in motion;

(b) the name or position of the person in charge of and coordinating the mitigatory action;

(c) for conditions or events which could be significant in bringing about a radiation emergency, a description of the action which should be taken to control the conditions or events and to limit their consequences, including a description of the safety equipment and resources available;

(d) the arrangements for limiting the risks to persons likely to be affected by a radiation emergency including how warnings are to be given and the actions persons are expected to take on receipt of a warning;

(e) the arrangements for providing early warning of the incident to the Northern Ireland competent authority, the type of information which should be contained in an initial warning and the arrangements for the provision of more detailed information as it becomes available;

(f) the arrangements for providing assistance to the person in charge of co-ordinating the response with mitigatory action;

(g) the arrangements for emergency exposures including the dose levels which have been determined as appropriate for the purposes of putting into effect the emergency plan;

(h) the arrangements in relation to doses or reference levels as required by paragraph 9(1); and

(i) the arrangements which the duty holder, or their agent, considers may assist in the transition from a radiation emergency to a situation where no further intervention is required.

(6) In a case in which the emergency services form part of an emergency plan, each duty holder shall give such information to those responders as will enable them to perform the functions which are allocated to them by the plan.

(7) Each duty holder shall ensure that any employee who may be involved with or may be affected by the arrangements in the emergency plan is or has been provided with—

(a) suitable and sufficient information, instruction and training, and

(b) any equipment necessary to restrict that employee’s exposure to ionising radiation including, where appropriate, the issue of suitable dosimeters or other devices.

(8) Each duty holder with an obligation to prepare an emergency plan in accordance with this paragraph in relation to the carriage of a package shall cooperate with any other person who is a duty holder in respect of that package so as to enable each of those duty holders to fulfil their obligations under these Regulations.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 substituted (18.6.2019) by The Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/111), reg. 1, Sch. (with reg. 7)