Hazardous Materials Area Plans

California Health and Safety Code (HSC) Section 25503(c) requires local agencies administering the provisions of HSC Chapter 6.95 to prepare a Hazardous Materials Area Plan for responses to hazardous materials releases and threatened releases within its jurisdiction.  Administering agencies must certify that the Area Plan has been reviewed and, if necessary, revised every three years.  Significant revisions require OES review and approval. 

Administering Agencies for hazardous materials emergency planning and response programs within municipalities are required to establish an area plan for emergency response to a release or threatened release of a hazardous material within its jurisdiction.  The primary purpose of the Hazardous Materials Area Plan is to assist agencies and businesses in their hazardous minks embedded into an HTML document to increase practicality and functionality.

  This feature allows the Administering Agency to easily search the plan for the desired information, eliminates duplication of information (many benefits), facilitates widespread distribution of the Area Plan within theaterials pre-emergency planning activities and emergency response roles by functioning as a response planning and guidance resource.  The Area Plan describes the emergency organization, assigns tasks, specifies policy and general procedures, and provides coordination of planning for all phases of emergency planning for a hazardous materials incident or emergency. 

Risk Management Professionals develops Hazardous Materials Area Plan as digitally-based documents with hyperl department (including seamless integration into the City’s network), and eases the maintenance and implementation of current information during an update.  In addition, paper copies of the Area Plan are provided to supplement the digital documentation.