Information technology of factory maps for chemical emergency preparedness and response in Pathumthani Province, Thailand
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Pathumthani is one of the provinces in Thailand where chemical disaster could possibly occur. Although there are emergency response teams around, they have no sufficient information system to prepare and respond to chemical emergency. This study aims to: 1) survey and create a database of chemical use in all factories in Pathumthani Province 2) classify the factory types and 3) establish the coordinates of each factory on the Google Maps. Three thousand nine hundred and nine factories to be exact (3,909) factories in Pathumthani Province were included in the study. The characteristics of factories were retrieved from the public website of Department of Industrial works and Pathumthani Office of Industry. Data related to chemical information were collected from chemical safety data sheet on public website (www.chemtrack.org). The results showed that the factory type 58(1) has the most category in Pathumthani Province. Based on the analysis of locations of factories in the map of Pathumthani province, it was found that 543 factories showed chemical information with locations, and 2,068 factories had no chemical information but showed their location on the Google Maps, while 1,298 factories cannot be specified. The map of factories in Pathumthani Province should be more completely identified by cooperating with all establishments in the identification of coordinated location of factories. There are various documents that must be reported to the government offices in order to establish accurate factory locations and to improve the map of factories to serve as comprehensive and effective tool for chemical emergency response plan.
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