> >I don't see how activating the fire alarm going to help someone with a seizure, or a heart attack. Much less a chemical exposure where they've had to use the safety shower.
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At our school, any pull station alarm will bring a variety of responders, including professionals to help with all of the scenarios you raise. The important point you raise is that each jurisidiction will have different emergency response resources and protocols, so an answer to the “do (research) labs need phones" will require a local risk assessment similar to those for ventilation requirements, lab safety training and oversight, and PPE.

I suspect that this is the reason that a wise person added the “P” step to RAMP paradigm - this is one more element than I was taught as an industrial hygienist in training in the 1980’s. (The paradigm of the time was Recognize, Evaluate and Control, with no need for emergency planning).

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
ralph**At_Symbol_Here**rstuartcih.org

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