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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:34:38 -0500
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From: "Schmidt-Nebril, Kathleen" <kschmidtnebril**At_Symbol_Here**DOM.EDU>
Subject: Emergency Action Plan for science labs
My university recently was hit with a four day power outage due to
severe storms. Our science building is recently new and has a back up
generator however none of the main lab instruments or equipment were
backed up to it. Hoods, lights and ventilation were. In the end we are
looking at a huge insurance claim and are now trying to prepare an
action plan for each of our labs in the event we go through something
like this again. I am the CHO for the department and was asked to put
this together. Does anyone know what OSHA standard, if any, I should be
looking at for this? They want to incorporate a "what to do" list for
example if none of the scientists were around someone from maintenance
could follow it to turn off sensitive equipment in our absence. My
thought on that is would we need to train and document anyone who might
have to respond and use our action list?
Kathleen
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