Emergency Response Planning Prototype Based on Process Safety Management for Manufacturing Industry

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration developed guidelines and regulations for an emergency action plan. However due to complex production processes involved in the manufacturing industry emergency planning is to be managed in a more systematic way. In order to enable planners to engage in a more systematic way of planning this research aim's to design a framework and prototype an emergency preparedness planning tool according to OSHA's guidelines and regulations. The framework is prototyped into a planning tool using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and Microsoft Visio. This project work would be expected to contribute in assisting emergency planners in the manufacturing industry design better emergency plans based on OSHA's requirements. The tool is to assist planners by introducing information of the regulations in a stepwise manner for decision
making compared to referring to guidelines which are arranged in categories. This
concept for such a planning tool is relatively new for the manufacturing industry as OSHA's available tool doesn't use stepwise planning and is made for small
businesses.