Archibus Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD
Sustainability & Risk / Emergency Preparedness / Define Systems and Zones

Drawing Hazardous Material Plans

During most types of workplace emergencies, first responders (firefighters, police, rescue personnel) will need to know the location and type of hazardous materials stored at your facility. An accurate, readily-available hazardous material (HAZMAT) plan can help minimize the loss of life and property.

Hazardous material plans are stored on the EP_DRAW_HAZARDOUS layer. To see a typical HAZMAT plan, consult drawing HQ19 in the HQ sample project.

Note: Each HAZMAT area is considered to be a regulation compliance item; accordingly, the HAZMAT asset symbols are linked to records in the Regulation Compliance Items table.

Note: If you are using the Hazard Abatement, Waste, and/or Hazardous Materials applications, you can run tasks that highlight rooms with hazardous materials, and you therefore do not need to separately depict hazardous material locations using this task. However, if you don't work with these other Archibus applications, you will want to depict your hazardous materials on floor plan drawings so that this information is available to staff throughout the organization, as well as to emergency responders.

To develop a HAZMAT plan:

1. On the Navigator in Smart Client or CAD, go to Sustainability & Risk/ Emergency Preparedness / Define Systems and Zones.
2. If you are working in Smart Client and CAD is not active, select the Draw Hazardous Materials Plans task. The task presents the Drawing List so that you can choose a drawing to work on. Choose the drawing, and Archibus loads your CAD tool, displays the selected drawing, and makes CAD the active application.
3. In CAD, open a drawing (if necessary).
4. Set a snap and grid as necessary. The Navigator in CAD includes these commands for your convenience.
5. Prepare the drawing for working with hazardous material areas by choosing Set Hazardous Material Plans on the Navigator. This sets the EP_DRAW_HAZARDOUS as the current layer.
6. Draw a polyline around each area that houses hazardous materials.
7. Assign the polylines intelligence by data editing them. This connects the hazmat polylines to records in the Regulation Compliance Items table:
• Building Code/Floor Code – The system completes these fields with the drawing's space hierarchy values.
• Regulation – Choose a regulation classification, such as HAZMAT, from the validating Regulations table.
• Description – Enter a detailed description about the area holding hazardous material.
• Room Code – If the hazardous material is within a specific room, enter it here. If it is not, leave this field blank.
8. So that HAZMAT plans can be viewed over the web using Archibus Web Central, save the drawing with its HAZMAT information as an Archibus Enterprise Graphic file by running the Publish Enterprise Graphics command.
9. The Web Central Emergency Preparedness / Emergency Response & Recovery Team / Highlight Facility Hazards and First Responders / Highlight Facility Hazards tasks present the information developed with this task.