Canadian Fertilizers Limited - Emergency Response Programs

At Canadian Fertilizers, employees spend literally hundreds of hours each year to make certain that, if an emergency ever develops, they and the company are prepared to address it.

Internally, CFL undergoes regular environmental, health and safety (EHS) audits to continuously improve EHS programs including emergency preparedness and response. Third party safety audits are also conducted under the Alberta Partnerships Program to give further verification of and insight into CFL EHS programs. The complex maintains a Process Safety Management Program and a Site Emergency Response Plan, as well as various site security and environmental protection efforts.

It maintains highly trained Emergency Response Teams and a Crisis Communications Team. In fact, approximately 60 employees at the complex are trained in emergency response, with approximately 30 of those trained to the equivalent of an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Hazardous Materials Technician level.

At CFL, emergency response efforts also actively involve local, provincial, and even national public safety organizations. Emergency teams regularly conduct preparedness exercises with City Disaster Services personnel. In June of 2006, for example, the company staged a full mock emergency scenario, complete with fire, police, ambulance, military, and other groups involved.

In more than 30 years in operation, the complex has never had a major incident that negatively affected the community. Maintaining that standard is one of CFL’s highest priorities.

Emergency response plans

Medicine Hat hazardous materials response team