Manual for Small Towns and Rural Areas to Develop a Hazardous Materials Emergence Plan; with an Example Application of the Methodology in Developing a Generalized Emergency Plan for Riley County, Kansas

摘要

Under contract No. DOT-RC-92013, Kansas State University completed a phase I final report: 'Community Model for Handling Hazardous Materials Emergencies' (October 1981). This report gave an indepth state-of-the-art analysis of risk analysis literature, laws, available data bases, available training courses, and developed a rural risk model. As part of phase I, a users' manual was developed: 'Risk Assessment/Vulnerability Users Manual for Small Communities and Rural Areas' (October 1981). The need for validation led to the redirection of the original multiyear study and the addition of a phase III which resulted in the phase III final report: 'Risk Assessment/Vulnerability Validation Study' (June 1983). The study concluded that the model gave reasonable results and had high credibility among the local officials participating. As a result of the study the risk assessment users manual was revised to be easier understood and easier to use.