Technical Guidelines for the Environmental Emergency Regulations, 2019
Technical guidelines for the environmental emergency regulations 2019 - version 2.0 (PDF - 8.1 MB)
Published: December 30, 2020
These guidelines are designed to help our regulatees understand the requirements of these regulations and how to comply with them. They include information about:
- who the regulations apply to
- calculating on-site substance quantities and container capacity
- benefits of environmental emergency planning
- who is required to prepare an environmental emergency plan
- how to prepare an environmental emergency plan
- what to include in your environmental emergency plan
- simulating emergency scenarios identified in the environmental emergency plan
- notification requirements to the Government of Canada about the charge, management or control of a substance subject to these regulations
- how chemical substances are evaluated for environmental emergency hazards
- failure to comply with the regulations.