Better Living Through Chemistry
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Be Careful!
100
The standard that requires a chemical inventory, complete secondary labeling, and Material Safety Data Sheets.
What is Cal/OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard?
100
The accrediting agency that provides us with the Environment of Care standards.
What is the Joint Commission?
100
Notification that smoke or fire is present.
What is Code Red?
100
Blue and white container for partially empty vials, syringes, certain IV bags, and pills.
What is a pharmaceutical waste container?
100
This document helps build our emergency response and management, and provides guidance in a disaster.
What is the Emergency Operations Plan? (EOP)
200
The overhead page, and the associated response to a chemical spill or the arrival of contaminated patients.
What is Code Yellow?
200
The location of the BBP Exposure Control Plan, the Aerosol Transmissible Disease Exposure Control Plan and Safety policies and procedures.
What is the Napa Solano Intranet? http://napa-solano.ca.kp.org/safety/
200
The meaning of RACE
What is Rescue, Alarm, Contain, Extinguish or evacuate?
200
needles, scalpels, razors, empty vials and syringes are disposed here.
What is a sharps container?
200
The code used to alert staff when there is a disaster or other event that will impact the medical center.
What is Code Orange?
300
Gloves, gowns, goggles, face shields.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE) ?
300
The person responsible for ensuring all staff have completed their annual safety training, and know where to find safety related information.
Who is the department manager?
300
Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep
What is how do you use a fire extinguisher?
300
This is where bloody, contaminated or infectious waste should be disposed.
What is a red waste container?
300
This helps us determine where are greatest risks and hazards are, and is used to guide us when planning disaster exercises.
What is the Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA)?
400
This provides you with information about the chemical make up of a product, as well as its health hazards and the required PPE and can be found on the safety page of the intranet site.
What is a Material Safety Data Sheet?
400
This overhead page alerts staff that a patient is missing and their help is required to locate the patient.
What is a Code Purple?
400
Horizontal, vertical, exit the building.
What is the order of evacuation?
400
Anything with patient identifiers is called this.
What is PHI?
400
This system is used to manage a disaster or other event in the medical center, and is used by other hospitals and first responders.
What is the Hospital Incident Command System? (HICS)
500
This is how you identify what something is, as well as its health hazards, if it has been transferred to a different container.
What is a secondary label?
500
The person you would contact with questions about the environment of care, or OSHA-related questions or concerns.
Who is the EH&S manager (Safety Officer)?
500
This contains information about evacuation routes, pull station and fire extinguisher locations, and sometimes has special instructions.
What is the department fire plan?
500
These should only be used for their specific purpose, not as handy containers for paper clips, marking pens and rubber bands.
What are biohazard specimen bags?
500
This dreary code is used when there is a potentially dangerous or other situation that requires immediate, discreet security response.
What is Code Gray?
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