BHUBANESWAR: A day after nine firefighters fell ill whilst trying to comprise leakage of chlorine gas at the campus of SCB scientific school and health center in Cuttack, the Odisha Fire Service on Thursday made up our minds to organize an ordinary running procedure (SOP) for its body of workers to deal with chemical disasters.
Director common of police (fire service and home guards) Bijay Kumar Sharma stated a training module will soon be devised and mavens roped in to train the fireplace body of workers on talents to cope with disasters, stemming from lethal chemical substances and radiation.
Sources stated the nine fire service body of workers, who had been taken ill, didn't use breathing equipment whilst making an attempt to take away the leaked chlorine cylinder from the pump house of public health engineering organisation (PHEO) at the scientific campus. Over 30 others, including some scientific scholars had been additionally taken ill after inhaling the obnoxious gas. "We always use the mask. But in a hurry to respond to the crisis on Wednesday, we rushed to the spot without carrying the breathing apparatus," stated probably the most fire service body of workers.
Sharma lauded the efforts of his males. "I understand they should have used the masks. We will also ensure that the proposed SOP will highlight all the dos and don'ts. Timely intervention of our personnel averted a major mishap. They deserve to be rewarded," Sharma stated, including two of the nine officials, who had been taken ill, are nonetheless present process treatment at SCB scientific. One of them is 60-year-old Laxmidhar Pradhan, who will retire after 3 months.
Sharma stated the fireplace body of workers are already skilled at the fundamentals to carry out rescue operation amid smokes. But this used to be the primary time they got here across a scenario, involving leakage of hazardous gas. "We have a smoke chamber at the fire training academy here where our personnel undergo regular training. Now they need to be trained to hone their skills to cope with chemical and radiation disasters. If possible, we will send them to training institutes outside," Sharma stated.
Significantly, the Centre had in 2011 included Bhubaneswar and Cuttack amongst fifty cities within the country to train police body of workers to cope with radiological disaster. Cops of Chandrasekharpur police station (Bhubaneswar) and Jagatpur police station (Cuttack) had been selected for the educational via the nationwide disaster control authority (NDMA). The challenge used to be named Mobile Radiation Detection Systems (MRDS). Odisha may not be having any nuclear plant, but hospitals, industrial gadgets and research laboratories, situated in large numbers within the twin cities, are liable to radiological disaster as the ones establishments use nuclear and radioactive fabrics.
Director common of police (fire service and home guards) Bijay Kumar Sharma stated a training module will soon be devised and mavens roped in to train the fireplace body of workers on talents to cope with disasters, stemming from lethal chemical substances and radiation.
Sources stated the nine fire service body of workers, who had been taken ill, didn't use breathing equipment whilst making an attempt to take away the leaked chlorine cylinder from the pump house of public health engineering organisation (PHEO) at the scientific campus. Over 30 others, including some scientific scholars had been additionally taken ill after inhaling the obnoxious gas. "We always use the mask. But in a hurry to respond to the crisis on Wednesday, we rushed to the spot without carrying the breathing apparatus," stated probably the most fire service body of workers.
Sharma lauded the efforts of his males. "I understand they should have used the masks. We will also ensure that the proposed SOP will highlight all the dos and don'ts. Timely intervention of our personnel averted a major mishap. They deserve to be rewarded," Sharma stated, including two of the nine officials, who had been taken ill, are nonetheless present process treatment at SCB scientific. One of them is 60-year-old Laxmidhar Pradhan, who will retire after 3 months.
Sharma stated the fireplace body of workers are already skilled at the fundamentals to carry out rescue operation amid smokes. But this used to be the primary time they got here across a scenario, involving leakage of hazardous gas. "We have a smoke chamber at the fire training academy here where our personnel undergo regular training. Now they need to be trained to hone their skills to cope with chemical and radiation disasters. If possible, we will send them to training institutes outside," Sharma stated.
Significantly, the Centre had in 2011 included Bhubaneswar and Cuttack amongst fifty cities within the country to train police body of workers to cope with radiological disaster. Cops of Chandrasekharpur police station (Bhubaneswar) and Jagatpur police station (Cuttack) had been selected for the educational via the nationwide disaster control authority (NDMA). The challenge used to be named Mobile Radiation Detection Systems (MRDS). Odisha may not be having any nuclear plant, but hospitals, industrial gadgets and research laboratories, situated in large numbers within the twin cities, are liable to radiological disaster as the ones establishments use nuclear and radioactive fabrics.
SOP for Odisha fire personnel in the offing to fight chemical disasters
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