Emergency Plans for Radioactive Release (continued)

The facility also needs to list in their emergency plan who they would need to contact in the event of an emergency, the recommended protective actions to offsite response organizations and to their own department, a brief description of the frequency, performance objectives, and plans for the training that the licensee will provide workers on how to respond to an emergency including any special instructions and orientation tours the licensee would offer to fire, police, medical and other emergency personnel.

This type of training should familiarize personnel with site-specific emergency procedures. The emergency plan also needs to have provisions for conducting quarterly communication checks with offsite response organizations and biennial onsite exercises to test response to simulated emergencies.