CBRNE Training Academy

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CBRNE Training Academy

• Safety and Response

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Lecture Goals

• Explain the first steps in confronting a
  hazardous event
• Introduce the concept of notification
• Describe zones of control

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S-I-N

• Awareness and recognition leads to SIN
• Safety
• Isolation
• Notification
• What to do when something happens

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Always count to TEN

• Take your time
• Evaluate your surroundings/situation
• Never rush in, or get in over your head

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SAFETY

• Once you have identified that a problem has
  occurred . . .
• PROTECT YOURSELF
• Only if you are safe can you ensure the safety of
  others

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ISOLATE

• To separate from everything else
• Close a door, close a window
• Cover a spill
• Set up a barrier
• Keep people from entering a building
• Establish a decontamination area

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Clean and Dirty

• Warm is dirty
• Cold is clean

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ISOLATE

• Keep clean from getting dirty
• Establish perimeters and control zones
• Can range from basic to complex

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Cold zone

• Support zone
• Green Zone
• No contamination

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Warm zone

• Contamination zone
• Reduction zone, Yellow zone
• Secondary contamination

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Hot zone

• Exclusion zone
• Red Zone
• Primary release / contamination

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ISOLATE

• Security is the key to isolation
• Impede entry into hospital
• Barricades
• Locked entryways
• Close fire doors / internal barriers
• Post guards
• Control access while protecting staff

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ISOLATE

• Inhibit contamination
• Cohort contaminated patients
• Prevent contact with non-contaminated
• Isolate to one area of hospital

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ISOLATE

• Water purification
• Is it safe to drink the water?
• Ventilation system
• Is it safe to breathe the air
• Waste disposal
• What do I do with all this trash?

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NOTIFY

• Who you gonna call?
• Follow the chain of command
• Your immediate supervisor is your best contact
• Activate the hospital plan for events

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NOTIFY

• Other contacts include . . .
• Your administrator
• The hospital HazMat person
• 911
• Poison Control
• Publicly Owned Treatment Works
• (POTW - waste water management)
• National Response Center
• FBI
• These contacts are not for everyone

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Remember . . .

• Awareness leads to SIN
• Always count to TEN

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Questions?