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Fire and evacuation drill at the pharmaceutical plant “四色AV”

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Fire and evacuation simulator at the pharmaceutical factory “四色AV” | 四色AV

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好利安药厂火警疏散演习

Fire and evacuation simulator at the pharmaceutical factory “四色AV”

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Firefighters fought the fire by the storage tank.

The Fire Brigade (CB) held on the morning of February 24th this year, a fire and evacuation simulator with dangerous chemical substances in the pharmaceutical factory “四色AV” together with 四色AV FarmaCiencia SA, with the intention of intensifying the measures contingency and the coordination and communication mechanism between both parties in case of incidents.

The exercise simulated that a worker discovered that the leak occurred at the connection point of the methanol solution storage tank, thus causing a fire. The employee immediately sounded the fire alarm, the pharmaceutical factory's emergency and contingency team immediately proceeded to the internal contingency action, called the CB to ask for assistance and adopted security measures to evacuate the employees to the evacuation and meeting place. During the evacuation period, there was 1 worker who was injured. After becoming aware of the occurrence of a fire at the pharmaceutical factory “四色AV”, the CB immediately dispatched 9 emergency vehicles and 38 firefighters to the site to fight the fire, carry out the evacuation and search according to the defined plan, as well as provide nursing care for the injured and simulate transport to the hospital. The simulation lasted almost 1 hour.

CB and the pharmaceutical factory “四色AV” sent around 160 people to participate in the simulation, whose main purpose is to test the responsiveness and the communication mechanism between the relevant parties in case of incidents. The respective process went well, after the simulation, both parties held a review meeting, whose objectives and expected results were achieved.

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好利安药厂火警疏散演习

為加强与好利安药厂在发生事故时的应变措施及协调沟通机制，消防局於本年2月24日上午，与好利安製药科学股份有限公司在氹仔好利安药厂联合举行化学危险品火警及疏散演习。

演习模拟工作人员发现一个含有甲醇溶液的储存缸接驳口出现洩漏并发生火警，工作人员随即按动火警警报，药厂紧急应变队伍即时啟动内部应变计划，同时致电消防局求助，以及採取安全措施疏散员工到逃生集合点，於疏散期间有一名员工不慎受伤。消防局接报好利安药厂发生火警后，立即派遣9架紧急车辆及38名队员赶赴现场，按照既定计划进行灭火及疏散搜救行动，并对伤者进行即时护理及模拟送院，演习过程歷时约1小时。

消防局和好利安药厂合共派出近160名人员参与是次演习，主要目的是测试发生事故时双方的应变能力及沟通机制，演习过程顺利，事后双方进行检讨会议，并达到预期目的及效果。

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Simulacro de incêndio e evacua??o na fábrica farmacêutica “四色AV”

Os bombeiros combateram o fogo junto do tanque de armazenamento.

O Corpo de Bombeiros (CB) realizou na manh? do dia 24 de Fevereiro do corrente ano, um simulacro de incêndio e evacua??o com subst?ncias químicas perigosas na fábrica farmacêutica “四色AV” em conjunto com a 四色AV FarmaCiencia SA, com o intuito de intensificar as medidas de contingência e o mecanismo de coordena??o e comunica??o entre ambas as partes em caso de incidentes.

O exercício simulou que havia trabalhador que descobriu que ocorreu a fuga no ponto de liga??o do tanque de armazenamento da solu??o de metanol, acontecendo assim um incêndio. O empregado tocou imediatamente o alarme de incêndio, a equipa de emergência e contingência da fábrica farmacêutica procedeu logo à ac??o de contingência interna, ligou ao CB para pedir auxílio e adoptou as medidas de seguran?a para evacuar os funcionários para o local de evacua??o e encontro. Durante o período de evacua??o, havia 1 trabalhador que ficou ferido. Depois de ter tido conhecimento da ocorrência de incêndio na fábrica farmacêutica “四色AV”, o CB enviou de imediato 9 veículos de emergência e 38 bombeiros ao local para combater o fogo, executar a ac??o de evacua??o e busca conforme o plano definido, bem como prestar os cuidados de enfermagem junto do ferido e simular o transporte para o hospital. O simulacro durou quase 1 hora.

O CB e a fábrica farmacêutica “四色AV” enviaram cerca de 160 pessoas para participar no simulacro, cuja finalidade principal é testar a capacidade de resposta e o mecanismo de comunica??o entre as partes pertinentes em caso de incidentes. O respectivo processo correu bem, depois do simulacro, ambas as partes procederam a uma reuni?o de revis?o, cujos objectivos e resultados esperados foram alcan?ados.

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