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Emergency Management:

The current situation is not a process safety event. Process safety personnel are in a supportive role
where we are helping occupational health manage the situation. As we activate and deactivate our
emergency operation centers, we look into our crisis management plans and these roles for
process safety. Now recognizing that group is taking on an event, they are managing a lot of issues.
I am fortunate that on my team I have a lot of really strong technical people who conduct
modelling, forecasting and simulations. So, my folks are helping the occupational group by looking
at our staffing numbers: how are they trending, where are they going, and what are they
predicting. They are looking at the number of cases that are being reported in our different
jurisdictions, so that we can give the occupational group help with this additional information to
manage the situation.

The second emergency management issue is thinking about our capabilities, and making sure that
all of our sites understand, “What does the mutual aid situation look like in our location?” and
“With reduced staffing, do we have enough people onsite to cover our emergency operation center
and emergency response teams?” A question that came up recently was that some of our assembly
points are smaller lunch rooms. Can we maintain this social distancing in those spaces, or do we
need to make some adjustments? We are making sure we have the capabilities to manage our
events. The last item is really thinking about Organizational Change Management (OCM). So that if
we have to implement any of our contingency plans around staffing, we have already worked out
the organizational change management piece so that we would know what that transition would
look like. If you are going to change your shift structure, look at what risks might that bring and
apply that OCM process.

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