AQPAC
- Emergency Response Air Quality Package, an environmental software package
that provides a prediction of hazard zones for emergency evacuation.
CAMEO
- Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations, an environmental software
package that provides an air dispersion model of area locations of hazardous
atmospheres.
CEPAC
- The Chemical Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council of Franklin County.
CEPAC Contributions
Protocol - is a procedure that CEPAC developed for companies
that wish to contribute to CEPAC's programs.
EHS
- Extremely Hazardous Substance. There are 354 Extremely Hazardous
Substances (EHS) that the United States Environmental Protection Agency
has chosen, based on scientific findings as highly toxic substances, which
the public should not be exposed to by their release from their container.
EP&CRTK
- Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know.
Emergency
Planning & Community Right-to-Know reports - are reports that identify
the chemicals that are manufactured, used, or stored at a company.
This chemical information is available to the public upon request.
Facility
Notification/Consultation Protocol - is the procedures where
the Hazard Analysis Committee notifies facilities of their risk assessment.
Franklin
County Hazardous Material Annex - is the emergency plan for hazardous
material incidents in Franklin County. The annex plan gives the standard
procedures for each agency that responds to a hazardous material incident.
HMEP
- Hazardous Material Emergency Plan.
HAZ-REP
database - is the computer database system used to store all the chemical
storage information received from companies in Franklin County.
MAP-INFO
- is the computer generated map of Franklin County. This map displays
the positions of companies, schools, day care centers, nursing homes, shelters,
hospitals, and fire departments.
NIMS
- is the National Incident Management System.
Quality
Assurance Program - is the evaluation process that verifies the accuracy
of the data on the database system.
Risk Reduction
Seminars - are educational workshops for companies to reduce their
risks at their facility.
Shelter-in-Place
- A video which describes how to shelter oneself and his or her family
from a chemical release to the atmosphere.
Speakers
Bureau - is a group of CEPAC members that present the Emergency Planning
& Community Right-to-Know aspects of CEPAC to the community associations
of Franklin County.
TRANSCAER
- Transportation Community Awareness & Emergency Response program.
TRANSCAER
Program - is concerned with the risk assessment of all modes of transportation
of hazardous materials in Franklin County.