Administrative Notice on the Draft Amendment to the "Regulations on the Preparation of Chemical Accident Prevention and Management Plans, etc."

The draft applies to facilities handling hazardous chemicals that are required to prepare chemical accident prevention management plans. It proposes to strengthen requirements for preparing accident response and emergency measures in internal emergency response plans, expanding the existing five categories to seven and addressing the prevention of secondary accidents caused by firefighting water entering facilities during fires or explosions. Operators would be required to include plans for off-site removal of water-reactive substances, emergency measures for explosion-hazard areas, initial fire-extinguishing response measures for fires and explosions, and information-sharing arrangements where gases disperse as a result of fire. Explosion-hazard areas would be determined in accordance with the explosion-hazard locations prescribed by the Occupational Safety and Health Act to avoid duplicative regulation.