Responsibilities of Treatment System Personnel
The Plant Superintendent should assess the personnel capabilities for dealing with emergencies. If, for example, the staff does not include a trained electrician, the emergency phone list should be updated to include the name and number of a local electrician.
It is strongly recommended that personnel devote a little time each month to mentally “walk through” the steps they would take to correct various emergency situations. An occasional afternoon spent walking through the facility and thinking about what to do if this or that piece of equipment failed, or this or that disaster occurred, would serve as a good self-training program for the personnel. During such exercises, questions will inevitably arise, and if the Plant Superintendent will immediately seek answers from the engineer, equipment representatives, and others, a reasonably good action plan will develop in the personnel’s minds.
The operator training program should include annual training for responding to emergencies. If possible, training should include a simulated emergency situation.