Hospital earthquake safety manual

Time frame: GeoHazards International and reinsurer Swiss Re created this manual to show how to reduce hospital damage and losses from items that fall, rupture or topple during earthquakes. It offers clear instruction how to identify hazards and brace medical equipment and supplies, contents, architectural elements, and building utility systems. Hospital administrators responsible for the safety of patients, doctors, nurses, and staff need to know whether to be concerned about earthquakes. Some guidelines for determining earthquake risk in your location are: If your hospital is located in a red zone on the map Earthquakes are one of the most significant risks facing your facilities. may follow an earthquake, such as fire, flood, landslide or TSUNAMI (tidal wave). • Turn on a battery radio to receive disaster instructions. Use telephones only to report ex-treme emergency situations. • Inspect your work area carefully for structural damage. Carefully open exit doors - they sometimes jam.

LABORATORY SAFETY MANUAL. DECEMBER EDITION. Environmental Health and Safety Department. University of Washington. Box Seattle, WA Phone. If you're looking for a safety manual template, a good place to start is with OSHA's small business handbook. This handbook is provided to owners, proprietors and managers of small businesses by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Labor. can obtain safety training: 1.) Consult your safety training manual. You received a copy of this manual at your orientation and a community copy is located in each hospital. 2.) Ask a team member if you have a specific question or concern. 3.) Ask your hospital Safety Coordinator. 4.) Consult references in the back of this training manual.

Earthquake: Facility management should: • Warn occupants to expect that the fire alarms and sprinklers will go off during an earthquake. • Instruct occupants that it is very dangerous to try to leave the building during an earthquake because objects can fall on occupants. Many fatalities occur when people. Hospital Safety Manual. Location: India. Time frame: GeoHazards International and reinsurer Swiss Re created this manual to show how to reduce hospital damage and losses from items that fall, rupture or topple during earthquakes. It offers clear instruction how to identify hazards and brace medical equipment and supplies, contents. Arrange priority review, approval and permitting of hospital repair and reconstruction of those affected facilities for a limited time period following an earthquake. Upon activation, HCAI′s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will be set up in HCAI’s Sacramento or Los Angeles offices in accordance with the Standardized Emergency Management.