Policies & Procedures
Evacuations
Job Aids
Emergency Codes
Potpourri
100
The two locations for the lab EM plan.
What is the Lab Safety Manual on Sharepoint, and the small EM binder in the lab (with an orange spine).
100
A large fire, structural damage, or a flood in the department.
What is a reason for a lab evacuation?
100
Locate department emergency (land line) telephones.
What is the process to follow if regular phone lines are down?
100
Code Green Level I
What is a Mass Casualty code for the ED?
100
Code Brown
What is a bomb threat?
200
The hospital Incident Command Center
What is a central communication location at each hospital that is set up during disasters?
200
The location you meet after an evacuation occurs.
What is the designated muster point or meeting location?
200
Identify key electrical systems and plug into emergency power outlets. Locate and utilize emergency power supplies: extension cords, batteries, portable lighting.
What is the procedure to follow when regular power goes out?
200
Code Red
What is a fire code?
200
Obtain cooling units from the Facilities Department if available.
What is the procedure to follow when facility air conditioning fails?
300
SAF.120, SAF.120 A, SAF.120 B, SAF.120 C, SAF.120 D, SAF.120 E, SAF.120 F, SAF.120 G
What are the document numbers of the entire Lab Emergency Management Plan?
300
Every year.
What is the frequency required of physically walking to your designated evacuation meeting location?
300
Where to look for information to contact staff that may be needed to come into work because of a disaster.
What is the departmental call list or phone tree?
300
Code Green Level II
What is an external incident Mass Casualty event?
300
The "grassy knoll" at SNGH.
What is the incorrect evacuation meeting location at SNGH- for years, many incorrectly believed that was the place to meet.
400
Blank Crossmatch tags, blank Component tags, blank Uncrossmatched tags, Emergency Release Request Forms.
What are items in the Transfusion Services Disaster Evacuation Supplies List?
400
The only staff required to walk to their designated meeting location.
What is all lab and central testing staff?
400
A Code Green Level II is called at SNGH or A Code Green Level II is called at more than one hospital.
What are the conditions that trigger the implementation of the Laboratory Command Center (LCC)?
400
Code Black
What is an evcauation?
400
Notify hospital (unit leaders, patient care supervisor) of down time. Units will arrange getting specimens to the laboratory.
What is the procedure to follow if the pneumatic tube system fails?
500
The Lab Administration Emergency Management Plan
What is a procedure that acts as a guideline to help management operate during a disaster.
500
Bring a schedule, account for all staff.
What is the process for making sure all staff have safely evacuated to the designated meeting location.
500
The Emergency Response Test Menu
What is a limited services menu (in a job aid) that may be implemented during a disaster?
500
Code Maroon
What is an active shooter code?
500
The Send-out area of the Raleigh Laboratory
What is the location of the Lab Command Center (LCC)?
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