control center, and with the appropriate USDA Defense 

 Board. Communications should also be provided be- 

 tween the control center and each plant shelter area. 



Location of the control center and the nature of the 

 emergency communications need to be determined on 

 the basis of the company's attack assumptions. An 

 underground installation with good fallout protection 

 and some blast protection makes the best center. 



In designing the communications network, consider 

 the needs of employees during a long period of shelter 

 occupancy. News of families and events in the out- 

 side world will be of the utmost importance to confined 

 employees. The only means they will have of receiv- 

 ing such information is through the company control 

 center, profjerly connected with other local informa- 

 tional outlets. 



EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN AND START-UP PROCEDURES 



Emergency procedures to shut equipment down and 

 start it up again will be of particular concern to food 

 industry plants in likely target areas. The handling 

 and storage of raw materials and finished products 

 which will be desperately needed in the post-attack 

 period will present special problems. 



Orderly, speedy shutdown in an emergency will be 

 vital. Plans should include procedures for a routine 

 shutdown in the event time is available. But there 

 needs to be an alternate plan for a "crash" shutdown 

 where attack is imminent and shutdown is required 

 for the safety of personnel. It is the "crash" type of 

 shutdown that is most likely to involve loss of food 

 products, raw materials and damage to equipment; 

 plant managers need to use the utmost ingenuity to 

 minimize such losses. In some larger industries, it 



may be possible to operate some control equipment 

 from shelter areas. 



Attention should be given to particular plant haz- 

 ards such as ammonia, gas or electric lines which 

 might start fires or otherwise endanger personnel con- 

 fined in shelter areas. 



The shutdown and start-up plans should define 

 clearly the responsibilities for emergency procedures. 

 Post detailed instructions for easy reference, and re- 

 hearse all employees involved. 



Periodic exercises need not involve actual shutdown 

 of equipment. A simulated shutdown drill can be de- 

 vised, with valves, switches and equipment tagged to 

 denote that they have been closed down. Time studies 

 of the operation wiU determine how successful it would 

 have been in an actual emergency. 



FALLOUT SHELTERS IN FOOD FACILITIES 



Among all of a company's emergency preparations 

 to save lives, providing effective fallout shelter — a place 

 to go in the event of a nuclear attack — for its employees 

 is the most important. The National Civil Defense 

 Program has placed foremost emphasis on establishing 

 a nationwide system of fallout shelters. As the result 

 of a national shelter survey more than 104 million 

 shelter spaces, many of them located in business and 

 industrial establishments, have been identified and are 

 being marked and stocked as official public shelters. 



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