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.