CBRNE Training Academy
CBRNE Training Academy
Safety and ResponseSafety and Response
Safety and ResponseSafety and Response
Lecture Goals
Lecture Goals
•Explain the first steps in confronting ahazardous event
•Introduce the concept of notification
•Describe zones of control
•Explain the first steps in confronting ahazardous event
•Introduce the concept of notification
•Describe zones of control
S-I-N
S-I-N
•Awareness and recognition leads to SIN
–Safety
–Isolation
–Notification
•What to do when something happens
•Awareness and recognition leads to SIN
–Safety
–Isolation
–Notification
•What to do when something happens
Always count to TEN
Always count to TEN
•Take your time
•Evaluate your surroundings/situation
•Never rush in, or get in over your head
•Take your time
•Evaluate your surroundings/situation
•Never rush in, or get in over your head
SAFETY
SAFETY
•Once you have identified that a problemhas occurred . . .
PROTECT YOURSELF
•Only if you are safe can you ensure thesafety of others
•Once you have identified that a problemhas occurred . . .
PROTECT YOURSELF
•Only if you are safe can you ensure thesafety of others
ISOLATE
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
•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
Clean and Dirty
Clean and Dirty
Warm is dirty
Cold is clean
Warm is dirty
Cold is clean
ISOLATE
ISOLATE
•Keep clean from getting dirty
–Establish perimeters and control zones
•Can range from basic to complex
•Keep clean from getting dirty
–Establish perimeters and control zones
•Can range from basic to complex
Cold zone
Cold zone
•Support zone
–“Green Zone”
–No contamination
•Support zone
–“Green Zone”
–No contamination
Warm zone
Warm zone
•Contamination zone
–“Reduction zone”, “Yellow zone”
–Secondary contamination
•Contamination zone
–“Reduction zone”, “Yellow zone”
–Secondary contamination
Hot zone
Hot zone
•Exclusion zone
–“Red Zone”
–Primary release / contamination
•Exclusion zone
–“Red Zone”
–Primary release / contamination
ISOLATE
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
•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
ISOLATE
ISOLATE
•Inhibit contamination
–Cohort contaminated patients
–Prevent contact with non-contaminated
–Isolate to one area of hospital
•Inhibit contamination
–Cohort contaminated patients
–Prevent contact with non-contaminated
–Isolate to one area of hospital
ISOLATE
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?
•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?
NOTIFY
NOTIFY
•Who you gonna call?
•Follow the chain ofcommand
•Your immediatesupervisor is your bestcontact
•Activate the hospitalplan for events
•Who you gonna call?
•Follow the chain ofcommand
•Your immediatesupervisor is your bestcontact
•Activate the hospitalplan for events
NOTIFY
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
•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
Remember . . .
Remember . . .
•Awareness leads to SIN
•Always count to TEN
•Awareness leads to SIN
•Always count to TEN
Questions?
Questions?