An SSE spokesperson said the fire began at around 2pm. "The company's practised emergency response procedures have been activated.
And Transocean will have to take steps to improve safety and emergency response procedures on its drilling rigs.
In addition to preventative measures, which included a five-tiered system of colour-coded signals warning the general public of national threats, emergency response procedures were redesigned in order to minimize the effects of a successful act of terrorism.
In a sign of the industry's crisis atmosphere, the Miami-based Carnival Corporation, the parent company of the ship's owner, Costa Cruises, announced on Thursday a "comprehensive audit and review of all safety and emergency response procedures across all the company's cruise lines".
Specific drilling and emergency response procedures are likely to be modified after investigators determine what caused the Deepwater Horizon accident, and regulation will surely be tightened, particularly in the United States, where Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week announced that federal oversight of offshore drilling would be revamped.
Without considering a spectrum of events, their likelihood of occurrence and the resultant consequences it is impossible to design proper mitigation actions or emergency response procedures.
Further investigations need to be conducted to study this effect for its guaranteed exclusion and for the development of emergency response procedures.
The report also recommends reviews of emergency response procedures and training, bearing in mind the extended length of time it is taking to get the Fukushima plant back under control.
The purpose of this exercise was to evaluate and improve warning systems, and to improve the effectiveness of 'Member States' in responding to a destructive tsunami, including exercising of their operational lines of communications, warning systems, emergency response procedures and decision making, as well as to promote emergency preparedness.
In Koyra, the major recovery efforts implemented by ERF included construction of new houses with sanitation facilities; support for education, health, and nutrition programs; support for the formulation of national disaster management plan (2010 2015) (DMB-MFDM 2010); and guidelines on emergency response procedures (UNDP 2011).
