Elaboración de un plan de emergencia para la Empresa Pública Mancomunada del Trópico Húmedo en la provincia de Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas

Abstract

The objective of this work was to develo pan emergency plan for Empresa Pública Mancomunada del Trópico Húmedo, licated in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas province, in order to provide administrative and operational personnel, as well as visitors, with the necessary knowledge to act in the evento of adverse or anthropic events to ensure the welfare of the people who are inthe company, as well as the material godos. To achieve the objective, tolos and methods such as the GTC-45 risk matrix, MESERI method, FEMA-154 method and ALOHA sofware were used to analyze the company´s current risks and threats. As a result, it was determined that the workers are constantly exposed to biological, psychosocial and ergonomic risks; fire risk assessment revealed serious values considered unaccptable in the restaurant, rest area, maintenance plant and warehouse; as for the structural análisis, the company shows a high degree af vulnerability due to the antiquity ofi t facilities. It is concluded that through the development of the emergency plan, a new emergency meeting point was established, evacuation maps, the organization og the different teams with their respective functions before, during and after the emergency, the updated numbers of external support institutions, and finally, all administrative and operational personnel were made aware of the protocols that Will allow mitigating the threats and risk existing inthe company. In addition to maintaning an anual control of the firefighting aquipment and structural installations, it is recommended that all personnel be trained so that they can obtain updated theoretical and practical knowledge in emergency situations.