Types of Emergencies

Types of Emergencies - An emergency is a serious unexpected and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action. Be prepared for your Health and safety emergencies.

1. Types of Emergencies An emergency is a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action .

2. Emergencies may be natural or manmade and include the following: Floods Hurricanes Tornadoes Fires Toxic gas releases Chemical spills Radiological accidents Explosions Civil disturbances A workplace emergency is an unforeseen situation that threatens your employees, customers, or the public; disrupts or shuts down your operations; or causes physical or environmental damage.

3. E mergency services protocols that apply in an emergency The planning phase starts at preparedness , where the agencies decide how to respond to a given incident or set of circumstances . This should ideally include lines of command and control, and division of activities between agencies. W here the agencies execute their plans , and may end up improvising some areas of their response (due to gaps in the planning phase, which are inevitable due to the individual nature of most incidents).   In the clear up from the incident, or help the people involved overcome their mental trauma. W hich involves taking steps to ensure no re-occurrence is possible, or putting additional plans in place to ensure less damage is done . This process should feedback in to the preparedness stage, with updated plans in place to deal with future emergencies, thus completing the circle.

4. Emergency Plan Your plan must include a way to alert employees, including disabled workers, to evacuate or take other action, and how to report emergencies, as required

5. Consider the following: Although it is not specifically required you also may want to consider the following : Using tactile devices to alert employees Providing an updated list of key personnel such as: Emergency Numbers the plant manager or physician, in order of priority, to notify in the event of an emergency during off-duty hours. !

6. Emergency steps you must take

7. Purpose of the emergency plan The purpose of an Emergency Plan is to documen t the recovery strategies, essential resources, and procedures necessary to implement a recovery process. It is often referred to as a “disaster plan” .   Emergencies and disasters can strike anytime and anywhere and often when you least expect it.

8. Components of the emergency plan The components Emergency personnel Emergency communication Emergency equipment Emergency transportation Effective Planning Personnel Equipment Communication

9. What will effective planning do? Safeguard your investment and critical resources (human resources/physical resources/business continuity ). Help to determine your business vulnerabilities . Provide a logical sequence of events and tasks . Shorten the time to affect a recovery . Minimise the costs of the recovery . Avoid confusion and reduce exposure to error in the recovery process . Avoid duplication of efforts during the recovery process . Know your emergency plan

10. Know your emergency plan

11. Purpose of the emergency plan The purpose of an Emergency Plan is to documen t the recovery strategies, essential resources, and procedures necessary to implement a recovery process. It is often referred to as a “disaster plan” .   Emergencies and disasters can strike anytime and anywhere and often when you least expect it.

12. E xample of a well-written emergency plan for a fire escape All staff members or employees should: Know the location of all building exits . Know the location of the nearest fire alarms and how to use them Count the doors or desks between their work area and the nearest exit. During a fire, exit signs may not be visible due to smoke or a power failure. Sound the alarm and leave the building immediately , closing all doors behind you. If you have been trained as a fire fighter, you must try to extinguish the fire but if it is to big then exit the building and join up with the other fire fighters. If smoke blocks your primary exit, use another one . If you must exit through the smoke, stay low by crawling on your hands and knees. Help the injured and lead others to the exits. Check doors before opening them . Kneel or crouch at the door, reach up and touch the door, knob, and frame. If you feel warmth on or around the door, use another escape route. If the door feels cool, open it slowly and carefully with your shoulder against it. Slam the door shut if you see flames or smoke on the other side. Call the local emergency number , no matter how small the fire appears to be. Follow directions from fire and security personnel . Once outside, move away from the building to the designated meeting location, out of the way of fire fighters. Here roll call will be held to determine if anybody is missing. Remain outside until the operations manager or the fire department says you may go back in . Designate assembly areas or areas, both inside and outside your workplace, where employees should gather after evacuating.  Assembly locations within the building are often referred to as "areas of refuge." Make sure your assembly area has sufficient space to accommodate all of your employees. Exterior assembly areas, used when the building must be partially or completely evacuated, are typically located in parking lots or other open areas away from busy streets. Try and designate assembly areas so that you will be up-wind of your building from the most common or prevailing wind direction. Accounting for employees after an evacuation Establish a method for accounting for non-employees such as suppliers and customers; Establish procedures for further evacuation in case the incident expands. This may consist of sending employees home by normal means or providing them with transportation to an offsite location

13. Accounting for employees after an evacuation To ensure the fastest, most accurate accountability of your employees, you may want to consider including these steps in your emergency action plan: Take a headcount after the evacuation. Identify the names and last known locations of anyone not accounted for and pass them to the official in charge. Accounting for all employees following an evacuation is critical. Confusion in the assembly areas can lead to delays in rescuing anyone trapped in the building, or unnecessary and dangerous search-and-rescue operations. When designating an assembly area, consider (and try to minimise ) the possibility of employees interfering with rescue operations. There are different methods that can be utilised to account for and record all parties not evacuated with examples in terms of the impact on people and emergency workers. Count

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