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Emergency Plan

The Aim of the Emergency Plan

"The aim of the Dublin Port Company Emergency Management Plan is to provide an emergency control structure and directions to mitigate:

- Loss of life or injury to employees, contractors, visitors and local residents
- Damage to the environment
- Damage to the facilities, plant and equipment of DPC, its commercial partners, tenant companies and neighbours.

The plan also aims to reduce the impact of any adverse event within the port area which could not be prevented, through the application of designated resources, both personnel and material, to the incident.”

Introduction

Dublin Port covers an area in excess of 650 acres where many activities of a marine, commercial and industrial nature take place.
 
This Emergency Management Plan is designed to provide guidelines to the Dublin Port Company (DPC) Emergency Management Team in the response to an emergency within their area of jurisdiction and as a guidance document for port tenants and users.

The limits of Dublin port are defined under the Harbours Act (1996), as amended 2000.

Operations at Dublin Port include the following:

  1. Graving docks for ship repair
  2. Ancillary services (e.g. Pilotage, Towage, Diving etc)
  3. Lo/Lo terminals operated in common user area and in designated terminals.
  4. Ro/Ro terminals facilitating both freight and passenger traffic.
  5. Facilities for handling petroleum products, LPG and molasses.
  6. Common oil pipeline linking the oil berths with the storage facilities.
  7. Dry bulk handling facilities for handling concentrate, peat, oil, grain, animal feedstuff, fertilizer, sand, coal, petroleum coke, slags, scrap metals and cement.
  8. Warehouse space
  9. Vehicle storage facilities.
  10. Cruise liner operations.
  11. Leisure craft mooring and movements at Poolbeg and Dublin City Marinas.

Tenant companies operate several industrial/commercial sites within Dublin Port and several of these companies are the defacto ‘operating company’ of those sites, and therefore have the ultimate responsibility for emergency planning within those facilities.

Objectives

The objectives of this plan are
 
a. To provide an emergency control organisation structure which will enable DPC to respond rapidly and efficiently to any emergency in order to prevent injury to personnel, damage to property or the environment as well as minimizing or eliminating the impact to neighbouring communities.

b. To ensure all appropriate and relevant resources are identified in advance and made available as quickly as possible during an emergency within Dublin Port.

Scope and Assumptions

The Dublin Port Emergency Management Plan outlines the general guidelines and actions to be taken by the Emergency Management Team (EMT) in the event of an emergency occurring within Dublin Port.

The plan is intended for guidance purposes only and may be adapted depending on the circumstances of a particular emergency. The actions to be taken in any given emergency will be decided by the EMT.

The Head of Operations, the Harbour Master or the Head of Security will decide the activation of the Emergency Management Plan on a case-by-case basis depending on the severity of the incident.

The plan is designed to cater for 6 marine and 6 land based emergencies as listed below, however the detailed standard operating plans and procedures are not included in the public document for security and confidentiality reasons.

Tenants, customers and emergency services can access a complete copy of the emergency plan by contacting the DPC Head of Security on 01 8876000.
 

Marine Emergency:

  1. Major incident onboard a vessel such as fire, flooding or cargo related.
  2. Collision between vessels or between a vessel and a fixed object.
  3. Grounding of a vessel.
  4. Major oil spillage from a vessel or jetty.
  5. Major oil spill at sea or oil entering the port from a source upriver.
  6. A security incident, involving a ship, which has the potential to escalate into an emergency situation.

Land Emergency:

  1. Major fire within the port estate.
  2. Major oil spill on the shore side.
  3. Major spill of hazardous material.
  4. A vehicle accident involving hazardous material.
  5. Chemical incidents (e.g. toxic cloud). 
  6. Major incident in an oil, gas or hazardous material storage area or facility.

 

The Emergency Management Plan makes the following assumptions:

  • All personnel with specific roles and responsibilities are familiar with their part in the plan, and have been exercised in the implementation of the plan.
  • All contact details for key stakeholders are kept up-to-date.
  • That the resources outlined in the plan are available and maintained as required.

The full Dublin Port Emergency Plan can be downloaded as a PDF or Word Document.  The Word and PDF documents contain additional information and maps.  Further information in HTML is available at the links below.

A list of Abbreviations and Definitions used in the plan can be viewed in HTML

A list of contact personnel can be viewed in HTML


Contact Details for Harbour Police & Port Security, Emergency Operations
Centre & Fire Wardens in HTML

 

Port Emergency Plans

Dublin Port Company has developed a number of detailed Port Emergency Plans that clearly sets out the emergency response in the unlikely event of a major incident occuring in the Port area. Dublin Port Company ensures as part of its normal procedures that each plan is reviewed and tested on a regular basis.

Details of Dublin Port Company's three major Port Emergency Plans are available as listed below:

Oil Pollution Response Plan : Contact the Harbour Master @ 01-8876000

Major Marine Incident Plan : Contact the Harbour Master @ 8876000

Dublin Port Emergency Plan : 

The Dublin Port Emergency Plan can be downloaded as a PDF document.

There is also a Microsoft Word Version of the document available to download.

Key elements of the plan are available in HTML as follows

Tenants, customers and emergency services can access a complete copy of the emergency plan by contacting the DPC Head of Security on 01 8876000.

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