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A disaster, whether nature or man-made, can strike anyone anywhere, including an academic research facility.
ASPR TRACIE’s program on the impact of radiological incidents on health and health care provides information and planning strategies related to radiological incidents.
Learn about standard protocols for recognizing, treating, and protecting hospital-based first receivers from nerve agent exposures.
Medical and health preparedness activities rarely address radiological emergencies and the unique attributes of radiological exposure and contamination. Hospitals and local jurisdictions that plan for medical surge of contaminated patients will save thousands of lives without endangering their workforce or disrupting other operations.
Chemical emergencies can happen at any time at health care facilities. The impact may not only be to the facility but patients, staff, and the surrounding community. To assist hospitals and all health care partners, ASPR/TRACIE has developed a “Chemical Emergency Considerations for Health Care Facilities” resource to assist in preparing and responding to chemical emergencies.
Recent active shooter attacks have illustrated the importance of procedures, systems, and training designed to mitigate the risks from active shooters. These mitigation recommendations are based on analysis of past active shooter attacks, and careful review of previous studies. These mitigation recommendations, which are tailored to building security personnel, are detailed in Part II of this book.
An emergency event which threatens the safety of patients, employees, staff, visitors and/or hospital operations may require the lockdown of the Hospital. This sample lockdown guidance document covers entry and exit considerations and also includes an event decision-making tree.
Provided by St. Bernadine Medical Center, this guidance seeks to assist hospitals in active shooter situations. View the flyer with guidance on how to respond when an active shooter is in your vicinity.
This sample Active Shooter Situation Response plan from St. Bernadine Medical Center provides guidance in the event an individual is actively shooting persons in the hospital or on the campus. This emergency response plan was developed to alert hospital staff that an active shooter appears to be actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in the hospital or on the hospital campus.
Provided courtesy of Victor Valley Global Medical Center, this document outlines an emergency response plan to alert hospital staff that an active shooter appears to be actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in the hospital or on the campus.