Yearly disaster plan

[highseas]

Due to living Very close we get W little booklet every year saying what to do in event of a cluster- I mean accident

it’s all very common sensed but could you imagine the chaos if anything went wrong? Look at the fuel and loo roll situation
still at least we get a front row seat

 

[Parm]

If it ever went wrong there you have absolutely nothing to worry about

You wont even know when it happened........

 

[MetalMonkey]

Don't stare into the blue light.

 

[Cato]

If it ever went wrong there you have absolutely nothing to worry about

You wont even know when it happened........

I remember as a callow youth in the '80s the four minute warning went off in Coventry in the wee small hours. Turned out some muppet had forgotten to switch it to test before showing new starter at the Police station how it worked.

It woke everyone up, including me, people out in the streets panicking and crying etc. My mum banged on the bedroom door to tell me and say I needed to get up. I replied "and do what?" silence was the reply so I turned over and went back to sleep.

I think the only thing to say in defence of those flapping is that this was Coventry, and only 30 odd years after the war. So plenty old enough to remember sirens in the night.

 

[Parm]

I remember as a callow youth in the '80s the four minute warning went off in Coventry in the wee small hours. Turned out some muppet had forgotten to switch it to test before showing new starter at the Police station how it worked.

It woke everyone up, including me, people out in the streets panicking and crying etc. My mum banged on the bedroom door to tell me and say I needed to get up. I replied "and do what?" silence was the reply so I turned over and went back to sleep.

I think the only thing to say in defence of those flapping is that this was Coventry, and only 30 odd years after the war. So plenty old enough to remember sirens in the night.

What did Coventry have that required that sort of siren, that the police controlled ?

 

[Bullet2012]

Is it like the old advice we got at school ?
hide under a table !

 

[Bullet2012]

http://www.roc-heritage.co.uk/uploads/7/6/8/9/7689271/protectandsurvive.pdf

 

[daleyd]

I was working at Springfields near Preston and we had just started a new process up which I had designed and written the control software for. We had been testing for a few weeks leading up to it, then they were using it "For real" that morning. It was a really difficult process-I remember the boffins telling me it had the potential go spectacularly wrong if we screwed up (Obviously there were many layers of safety involved so it kind of reassured me a bit)

I drove up and got there about 9:30 and all the usual routes to the main gate were blocked off by police cars!

My mouth went kind of dry thinking about what I'd done wrong, eventually I got to the main gate at about 10:30 - when I got into the office I found out it was a HVAC fan filter (Totally unrelated to where I was working) that had blown out and they had cordoned off the perimeter as a precaution. It was just pure bad timing it happened that same day...

 

[Cato]

What did Coventry have that required that sort of siren, that the police controlled ?

I don't know to be honest, although that massive munitions store which is/was under Edge Hill is pretty close.

A bit about it here.

 

[atomant48]

You’ll call me sad but I run fire alarm exercises at home by setting off the smoke detectors and get the kids to carry out their “immediate actions” i.e getting eachother and going outside to the meeting point. Hopefully knowledge they never have to use….

 

[gaz1]

we have a nasty coment in our area for our yearly warning letters thats if you get them

we have the air raid sirens ready to go in an emergency
if we have a gas leak dont worry, it will be too late before you hear them.

what we will do first is try to contain it by our in house fire and gas escape crews
until it gets out of hand then we may call the fire briggard for help as by this time it will be out of our control
then we will turn on the sirens
for you that sleep downstairs it will be too late as you will be dead
if you hear the sirens stay upstairs or you will be dead
venture outside you will be dead

dont worry as we stock the bopal gas in our plant as well as other dangerous chemicals on site
thats how we had our last fire we put 2 chemicals in leaking vats on top of each other
our crews did there best to contain the fire whilst civilian's phoned for the fire briggade

 

[Parm]

we have a nasty coment in our area for our yearly warning letters thats if you get them

we have the air raid sirens ready to go in an emergency
if we have a gas leak dont worry, it will be too late before you hear them.

what we will do first is try to contain it by our in house fire and gas escape crews
until it gets out of hand then we may call the fire briggard for help as by this time it will be out of our control
then we will turn on the sirens
for you that sleep downstairs it will be too late as you will be dead
if you hear the sirens stay upstairs or you will be dead
venture outside you will be dead

dont worry as we stock the bopal gas in our plant as well as other dangerous chemicals on site
thats how we had our last fire we put 2 chemicals in leaking vats on top of each other
our crews did there best to contain the fire whilst civilian's phoned for the fire briggade

If its a top tier COMAH site they will have a well developed emergency plan that will involve all the blue lights at the very earliest opportunity. This will have been agreed with all the blue lights and will include all local hospitals etc etc

 

[Munkul]

If its a top tier COMAH site they will have a well developed emergency plan that will involve all the blue lights at the very earliest opportunity. This will have been agreed with all the blue lights and will include all local hospitals etc etc

Not only that, but they'll regularly have your colleagues on site sniffing around and poking at things they don't like the look of, and that is a frightening prospect for any site that doesn't have its house in order

IMHO you're safer living next to a top tier COMAH site in the UK, than you would be living next to some large non-COMAH sites!

 

[Maker]

You wont even know when it happened........

Lots of people knew last time it went wrong, they changed the name so everyone would forget though.

 

[gaz1]

If its a top tier COMAH site they will have a well developed emergency plan that will involve all the blue lights at the very earliest opportunity. This will have been agreed with all the blue lights and will include all local hospitals etc etc

they failed and ive got realy good photos of the start of chemical fire then i left before it got to this stage

out of the area and well away from the fumes

 

[bricol]

they failed and ive got realy good photos of the start of chemical fire then i left before it got to this stage

out of the area and well away from the fumes

Not exactly last week though was it - close to 30 yrs ago. Lessons learned and implemented. My exes dad worked for them.

 

[bricol]

What did Coventry have that required that sort of siren, that the police controlled ?

Dunno, but I lived in a little village, Hipperholme, outside Halifax - I remember the air-raid siren on the library roof being tested a few times when I was a kid.

Problem was, I don't recall there being any info sent out as to what to do if it went off unannounced . . .

 

[gaz1]

Not exactly last week though was it - close to 30 yrs ago. Lessons learned and implemented. My exes dad worked for them.

I know many workers in there and many said they was dangerous practices going on say anything and your fired

and its still going on to a degree

we had a high heat recently no air raid siren massive gas blow offs from the gas cylinders

Dunno, but I lived in a little village, Hipperholme, outside Halifax - I remember the air-raid siren on the library roof being tested a few times when I was a kid.

Problem was, I don't recall there being any info sent out as to what to do if it went off unannounced . . .

ive heard it but never understood why it was there

a few carpet places and the dryer place

 

[Parm]

Dunno, but I lived in a little village, Hipperholme, outside Halifax - I remember the air-raid siren on the library roof being tested a few times when I was a kid.

Problem was, I don't recall there being any info sent out as to what to do if it went off unannounced . . .

When i was a kid i lived near an army barracks, every so often there would be an air raid siren going off. Never any instruction on what to do

 

[Parm]

they failed and ive got realy good photos of the start of chemical fire then i left before it got to this stage

out of the area and well away from the fumes

The COMAH Regs first came out in 1999, then updated in 2015. So this predates any modern arrangements