As a first responder or member of the emergency response team, you need to know the location and type of hazardous materials stored at the facility. If a fire or spill reaches hazardous material , the severity and scope of the initial problem automatically increases, putting emergency response personnel in danger and increasing damage to the facility. If before entering the building, you consult an accurate hazardous material plan, you can better plan how to tackle the problem at hand and minimize the loss of life and property.
ARCHIBUS provides multiple applications to track several components of managing hazardous materials: hazardous products with safety data sheets, hazardous waste, assessments of the building to find materials such as mold and asbestos, and so on. Accordingly, this process offers reports focusing on these individual types of hazmat, as well as a report that combines all types of hazard information. Note that if you do not have a license for the ARCHIBUS application that tracks a particular component of hazardous material, the system will inform you that you do not have a license and cannot access the report.
This shows all of the hazards on a floor. It highlights any room that has at least one of the following:
This view is the same as the Highlight Zones except that by default it shows the hazardous materials layer (areas that house hazardous materials). Mouse over a highlighted room to see information about the hazard.
If you wish, you can view other information such as egress plans and zones by selecting them from the menu.
If you use the ARCHIBUS Clean Building application to assess the facility for mold, radon, asbestos, and other types of hazardous substances, you will have an inventory of rooms with these issues which you can share with the first responders and emergency response teams. For example, in the event of an emergency it is helpful to know the building areas that have asbestos, which is highly flammable. This report highlights the rooms with issues, using different colors to discern the severity of the issue according to hazard rank or hazard rating. The colors for the various ranks and ratings are set by the Business Process Owner. For information, see Environmental & Risk Management / Clean Building / Business Process Owner - Clean Building.
For information on assessing buildings for these substances, see Clean Building: Overview and Clean Building / Management Reports / Floor Plans with Hazard Assessments.
If you use the ARCHIBUS Hazardous Materials application to inventory your safety data sheets (SDSs) and hazardous products (chemicals, solvents, paints, cleaners, and so on) and their locations, you can run this task to highlight the rooms on a floor plan which house hazardous products. The system highlights the rooms according to the Tier 2 classification of the material so that you know if it is hazardous, extremely hazardous, or has an unknown status.
For information, see Hazardous Materials: Overview.
If you use the ARCHIBUS Waste Management application to track where waste is stored and accumulated, you can share this information with first responders and emergency response teams. For example, you might have waste that is classified as hazardous and is highly flammable; first responders need to be aware of this when entering the building.
With the Waste Management application, you track all types of waste -- paper, waste water, emissions -- not just hazardous waste. This report focuses on hazardous waste by highlighting rooms that have stored or accumulated waste whose waste profile classifies it as hazardous. Beneath the floor plan, the report lists the details of each hazardous waste found on the floor.
For information, see Waste Management: Overview.
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