From: "Schmidt-Nebril, K
athleen" <kschmidtnebril**At_Symbol_Here**DOM.EDU>
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM.EDU
Sent: Thu, July 8, 2010 6:34:38 PM
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Emergency Action Plan for sc
ience labs
My university recently was hit with a four day pow
er 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 equ
ipment were backed up to it. Hoods, lights and ventilation were. In t
he end we are looking at a huge insurance claim and are now trying to prepa
re an action plan for each of our labs in the event we go through som
ething 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 d
o" list for example if none of the scientists were around someone from main
tenance could follow it to turn off sensitive equipment in our absence. My thought on that is would we need to train and document anyone w
ho might have to respond and use our action list?
Kat
hleen
