Content of annual flood, storm, incident, and natural disaster management in Vietnam

Annual content of flood, storm, incident, and natural disaster management in Vietnam (Illustrative image)

Article 15 of Circular 01/2010/TT-BGTVT stipulates the annual content of flood, storm, incident, and natural disaster management as follows:

- Manage and protect the railway infrastructure system and railway transport means from the destructive impact of floods, storms, incidents, and natural disasters. Prevent behaviors that may cause damage or destruction to the works when such incidents occur.

- Within their management scope, entities must regularly inspect and assess the safety levels of works that need protection or are related to flood and storm management; incident and natural disaster response, and rescue. If defects or deteriorations are detected, promptly take remedial measures; if beyond capability, immediately report to the higher authority for resolution before the rainy, flood, and storm season.

- Develop a flood, storm, incident, and natural disaster management plan for the unit. The plan must anticipate possible incidents, floods, storms, and natural disasters; assess the impact on infrastructure systems, equipment, assets, and railway transport means; and establish suitable response methods according to the following contents:

-  Measures  for  anchoring,  fastening,  supporting,  bracing,  and  securing  to  protect  works,  equipment,  means,  and  goods;
-  Plans  for  evacuation  of  means,  equipment,  and  goods;  rescue  and  relief  plans,  and  transfer  of  passengers  and  goods;
-  Reserve  materials  and  equipment;  stockpile  food  and  supplies  in  anticipation  of  floods,  storms,  incidents,  and  natural  disasters  blocking  the  route  for  long-distance  North-South  or  local  trains  running  over  300  km.
-  Measures  to  prevent  floating  objects  from  impacting  works  during  floods;
-  Regularly  monitor  the  developments  of  floods,  storms,  incidents,  and  natural  disasters;  observe  the  actual  situation  of  floods,  storms,  incidents,  and  natural  disasters  concerning  works;  track  the  flood,  storm,  incident,  and  natural  disaster  resistance  of  works  and  equipment;
-  Establish  communication  policies  during  floods,  storms,  incidents,  and  natural  disasters.  Anticipate  possible  scenarios  such  as  power  outages  and  communication  disruptions  to  proactively  and  effectively  address  them.

- The Commanding Committees at all levels must organize inspections of the flood, storm, incident, and natural disaster management of subordinate units, especially key and vulnerable works.

- Reserve materials, means, and essential equipment for flood, storm, incident, and natural disaster management; incident and natural disaster response, and rescue;

-  Primary  materials  include:  Sleepers,  rubble  stones,  crushed  stones,  steel  cages,  rails,  track  spikes,  I-beams,  pallets,  ropes,  information  poles,  support  beams,  wire  ropes,  fuel,  gasoline,  and  diesel  oil;
-  Equipment  includes:  Locomotives,  railcars,  rescue  cranes,  construction  and  loading  cranes,  various  types  of  carriers,  trucks,  pile  drivers,  excavators,  generators,  pumps,  welding  machines,  jacks,  and  wired  and  wireless  communication  devices;
-  Reserve  essential  food  supplies,  necessities,  and  medical  supplies  at  vulnerable  and  difficult  locations  to  use  when  necessary;

- Organize training on receiving and processing information and flood, storm, incident, and natural disaster management, response, and recovery work;

- Organize activities of the emergency response forces for flood, storm, incident, and natural disaster management, response, and recovery at the unit.

See more details at: Circular 01/2010/TT-BGTVT, effective from February 25, 2010.

Nguyen Phu

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