Answer the questions based on the scenario: It is a hot and sunny day on the 15th of July 2016, and Windward Air flight #1234 from Beijing has just landed at Edmonton's International Airport. When airport ground staff open the plane's aft cargo hold a vapour plume is immediately seen emanating from the plane's hold. The plume drifts from the plane, contacting the right landing gear, right engines, and an adjacent airport vehicle.

 

Four (4) ground staff beside the plane suffer a severe burning sensation to the eyes and coughing, choking, and shortness of breath to their respiratory system.

The aircraft, and adjacent areas of the airport downwind of the plume, are evacuated. Airport emergency services respond in an attempt to contain further vapour plume travel, and security personnel secure the area around the plane.

Initial evaluation by emergency responders determines some of the contents of two aircraft contoured containers, #AKE-1212-3 and #AKE1212-4, are leaking. Cross-checking the flight manifest indicates the containers hold forty (40) twenty-five litre metal pails of Oxalyl Chloride.

So ,Reflect on the scenario and use the many resources that have been provided to you to answer the following questions. Please submit an assignment that includes a brief incident summary and introduction, answers to all of the 9 questions (written in complete sentences/paragraphs), and a summary paragraph that wraps up the most significant takeaways for you from this case study, as a future emergency management practitioner.

QUESTIONS:

1 What type of dangerous goods emergency has occurred (e.g. Dangerous Goods Class; Division)?

2 What are the dangerous aspects of responding to an event involving Oxalyl Chloride? Refer to a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) or Safety Data Sheet (SDS) and summarize the most significant points (SDS sheet is ATTACHED below).

3 Describe how you would use the Emergency Response Guidebook to support the initial response. Be specific in terms of...

where you would locate relevant information in the guidebook

what that information is identify if there are initial isolation and/or protective action distances

what actions you would implement based on what you have learned

4 Who is the Lead Agency for this event? Explain your rationale for this.

5 Who are the key stakeholders in this event? Explain the primary roles for each stakeholder that you indicate.

6 What Canadian Federal and Provincial legislations are applicable to this incident?

7 What (if any) International legislation and/or standards apply to this incident?

8 As an emergency management practitioner, what would be your recommendations to prepare for a re-occurrence of this type of incident in the future? How could this type of event be mitigated for?

9 Identify two other SDS's for Oxalyl Chloride from different manufacturers and indicate two differences between each of those SDS's compared to the SDS provided below. Identify the UN number for each.