Emergency response operations are essential activities in the oil and gas facility. As an incident in an oil and gas facility area can have a considerable economic and social impact, a response to such an incident must be provided in a very short time. An essential part of every plant emergency organization should be the industrial fire brigade. In relation to the emergency management process, the estimation of response time plays a very crucial role. Response time is the time required by the emergency services, particularly for the industrial fire brigade, to reach the incident point after getting incident information. The use of parameters plays an important role in the successful implementation of emergency response. The decisions for such emergency responses should consider the available emergency resources and other factors such as emergency responders' competency, drill and exercise, fire protection and fire detection system, and the characteristics of surrounding affected oil and gas facilities. This case study considered configuration emergency response time parameters for an industrial fire brigade at an oil and gas facility. Therefore, to predict the response time, consideration must be given to the characteristics of emergency response parameters, their effectiveness, and their efficiency. Having this process will enable the company to improve emergency preparedness and response management. The results obtained from the analysis show that the framework is applicable to designing the response to incident conditions. It is expected that the framework would help in better resource allocation and efficient response to incidents in industrial areas.
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