We evacuate the building after taking a phone call, while asking for specific details.
What is a bomb threat?
This results in a paid absence.
What is a TRCL building closure?
It's the only time a TRCL employee works over 8 hours.
What is First Aid training?
a document that includes emergency contacts, safety plans, and any important medical information?
What is a safety plan?
When somebody rips one enough to clear a room, but it wasn't you....and you're all alone.
What is a gas leak?
A sudden onset of illness followed by a sense of disorientation or irrational thoughts.
What is carbon monoxide poisoning?
Significant snowfall, rainfall, flooding, power outages, toxic spills, natural disasters etc.
What is inclement weather and/or other emergencies?
This is stored in a secure location at each site.
What is a safety plan?
Something all employees are expected to do when travelling.
What is a safety check-in plan?
When will it go off? Where is it located? What does it look like?
What are questions you ask when receiving a bomb threat?
An event typically reported on the radio. Generally found near highways, rail lines and waterways.
What is a toxic spill?
The last in the chain.
What is a support worker?
Some of us fill these out more than others....
What is an Incident Report form?
Consultants keep this stashed in a top-secret hidey-hole.
What is emergency information?
Eight hours on the floor, with no phone, and a bucket toilet... and you ran out of fun games two hours ago. Ugh.
What is a lock down?
When receiving a package with a mysterious white powder one is expected to contact 911.
What is an Anthrax or Biological Agent Threat
This would require an employee to check in with a consultant prior to attempting to come into work.
What is an extreme weather event?
After applying this protocol to a person served it is expected that the consultant and the family are contacted.
What is first aid?
When supervisors don't get this they tend to call parents, husbands and coworkers to drop what they are doing to make sure you aren't unconscious on the floor...
What is a check-in?
"This tells me that the problem is in the building..."
What is a look outside?
This event is disruptive but not sentinel. It can be either large scale or small scale. The response is situation dependant.
What is a power outage?
An app all TRCL employees are encouraged to download, and/or a website TRCL employees are encouraged to check daily.
What is Drive.BC.ca
"honey, I won't be home for dinner...yeah I am on my way to BVDH...no I couldn't reach anyone"
Something that results in Juanita pulling together a search party to scan ditches for your upturned vehicle if forgotten.
Something Marina is known to lack.
What is "Best Judgment"?