SETRIC Kick-off Conference

Sankt Augustin – 24th February 2005

Crisis Management in a city of the French Chemical Valley

Feyzin in a few numbers

• 9347 inhabitants• Located in the “Vallée de la chimie”

(Chemical Valley) in the south of Lyon• Area : 999 ha (9 990 000 m²)• Area divided in 3 different spaces :

- 1/3 urban space,- 1/3 industrial space (with 3 SEVESO establishments)- 1/3 natural space.

Refinery

TOTAL

Rhône Gaz

Industrial estate

“La Chèvre” island

“Les Razes” district

Air Liquide

Reminder about administrative organisation in France

The Mayor

• The Mayor and the local council is elected by the inhabitants of the city for 6 years• He is responsible of the safety of the inhabitants, he is responsible of the emergency operations for the city

Yves Blein is the Mayor of Feyzin

Reminder about administrative organisation in France

The Prefect

• The Prefect is appointed by the government, he represents the government in the department• He is responsible of emergency operations for several cities and for the department• He gives the hazards perimeters to the mayors that may take them into account in their town planning project, if not, the prefect impose them with a “Projet d’Intérêt Général” (Project of General Interest)

Feyzin city symbol for industrial hazard

• Explosion of the refinery : 4th January 1966• 3 Seveso establishments (refinery Total, gas production plant Rhône Gaz, gas production plant L’Air Liquide)• One district “Les Razes” complain with industrial hazards regulations (Z1 and Z2 perimeters)• Closed to Seveso establishments in others cities: Saint-Fons, Pierre-Bénite, Solaize.

today's Z1 and Z2

perimeters

PIG et PPI

´Zone PPI

Périmètre de la zone PPI

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Plan d'Intérêt Général - PIGZone Z2 (PIG)

Zone Z1 (PIG)

Industrial hazards

• ignored until disasters…Feyzin 1966Seveso 1976Bophal 1984Tchernobyl 1986Toulouse 2001…

• taken into account : Seveso Directives, Projet d’Intérêt Général [PIG]…• … with one logic : the Glacis, to remove all new construction in hazard perimeters,…• … and one consequence : the decline of the district

The bias of Feyzin

• factories can not be moved in the countryside,• entire districts can not be sacrificed,• hazards are numerous and consequences are complex,• hazards knowledge evolves,• local authority has a particular responsibility about safety of population

• to settle the urgent problems (move of the fire station, move of the school) • to have a better knowledge of the reality of hazards and nuisance• to improve safety of people and property,• to develop appropriate prevention and protection measures,• to give a better information to inhabitants,• and to give to the inhabitants of the district “Les Razes” a quality of life equivalent as inhabitants of others districts

Objectives of Feyzin

To have its own point of view

Support partnership with SOCOTEC Consulting

In order to evaluate, with a probabilistic approach, the different hazards (according to the Cochet/Bachelot law)

The three hazards : • toxic• thermal• overpressure

The approach of Feyzin

Plan fin risques

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RISQUE SURPRESSIONEtudes de danger TOTAL FINA ELF et RHONE GAZ

Calcul de la décroissance du risque avec la distance

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Zones de surpression S

S4

S3

S2

S1

LEGENDE

Etudes de danger relatives à une surpression

Zone Z2

Zone Z1

New map of hazard

Overpressure hazardTotal and Rhône Gaz

Calculation of the decrease of hazard with distance

AFTER CRISIS

Survey on hazard perceptionHealth observation

Information to inhabitants about hazards and appropriate behaviour Training of city’s staff

Precautions to take: saving of essential documents, …

Safety plan for the sport centre

Noise protection wall

Crisis manageme

nt plan

Communication

Moving of school

Local Prevention and Emergency Plan

Actions of general orderNORMAL RUNNING

TIMECRISIS

Safety plan for “La Chèvre” island

Safety plan for the industrial estate

Safety plan for “Les Razes” district

Safety plan for the Brassens school

Town planning project

Practice of escape and confinement

Workshop with numerous partners (Seveso industrialists, Fire Brigade, Local Police, Gendarmerie (Army), Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, Department of Road Equipment, CERTU, Grand Lyon,…) on the following themes :

Definition of district islets, escape road, role of referent inhabitantsSharing out of roles of local police and gendarmerie (army)Alert systemIdentifying of escape road

Allow to have a consistency of emergency plans: Safety plans, Crisis management plan, Emergency plan of Prefecture

Local Prevention and Emergency Plan

Actions of general order

Validated principles• Behaviour : confinement or escape according

to the accident • Alert message directly given by the Mayor• Pedestrian escape in East direction

Evaluation of people fluxes• Inhabitants, workers, public establishments• Persons with disabilities : handicapped people, wheelchair users, elderly

Local Prevention and Emergency Plan

Actions of general order

Ilôts du Plan d'évacuation

LégendeCommunal

Fine

Grande Serve

Mozart

Rhône

Vanniers

Verchère

Vercors Version 14/10/03

Islets of the safety plan

Safety plans• Alert : how it can be given

• Behaviour to follow : confinement or escape

• Escape road and exit

• Communication : booklet and behaviour cards

Local Prevention and Emergency Plan

Safety plans

Local Prevention and Emergency Plan

Booklet for inhabitants

Local Prevention and Emergency Plan

Behaviour card for islets

Local Prevention and Emergency Plan

Behaviour card for the sport centre

Crisis Management Plan • Organises the city’s services to manage a

crisis • 6 units : Operations management, First-aid

and security, Technical logistics, Inhabitants support, Communication, School support

• Gives the missions of each unit• Takes an inventory of city’s means• Cartographies• Can be used for industrial or environmental

disaster

Local Prevention and Emergency Plan

Crisis Management Plan

Local Prevention and Emergency Plan

Crisis Management Plan

Fire Brigade

School support

Technical logistics

Inhabitants supportCommunicati

onFirst-aid

and security

Gendarmerie

Local PolicePopulation

Media Technical support services Accommodatio

n

Food

Psychological assistance

Schools

Prefect’s services

Operations management

(Mayor)

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