HS Msg 5 Response

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		A CSOT EXERCISE IN EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND RECOVERY


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Health Services Msg 5 Response
Point of Contact: Jean Brown CSOT Department/Area: Health Services What now? Does your plan adequately provide for your employees to be outside for any length of time? With treatment and release of injured, will reassess staffing assignments and send home with plan for return to campus. Some buildings may not open for several days. May need to help facilitate neighbors in community that need medical assistance. Refer to area medical facilities for care. Are you and your staff prepared for bad weather conditions? Grab and go bags have supply of trash bags that can be used as rain coats or temporary moisture barriers on wet ground while retaining some body heat. Until you can get back into your building, what actions do you need to take in the next hour? Nothing has change in terms of what needs to be done. Continue plan from message 1-4 Next two hours? Continued updates and reassessment for night time plans. Does your plan outline with whom you should meet (e.g. any other CSOT members, etc.) in order to coordinate a response or to address the needs of employees and students? How will you contact them? Is this information listed in your departmental plan? CSOT location for meetings and phone numbers of CSOT are in resource packet in grab and go bags. May still have runners if technical communication not available will not resort to smoke signals until second day when cell batteries dead. List by name all essential personnel you will have stay on campus overnight. Jean Brown, Depending on need may have NP stay. Will they need housing (once available)? Possibly unless need to sit with patients overnight. Are any student employees on the list? No Based on new information what issues or new questions have emerged, particularly as you begin to address ECMT’s question to CSOT about the extent of the campus closure -- for tomorrow (TH), the remainder of the week (TH-Sun), or beyond? With night approaching, what options open for illumination and warmth if buildings not open? If all injuries treated and released and no one trapped in buildings or new injuries due to aftershocks services will need to look at illness coexisting with event as well as new illness due to current conditions including but not limited to dehydration, hypothermia, asthma(increased risk if smoke or dust levels elevated).These may also occur in remaining staff as well as remaining students. The need for hand sanitation will rise exponentially with restoration of food services and potentially limited sanitation facilities. Update from Facilities: There are approximately 50-55 buildings (excluding rental houses and smaller apartment buildings) that will take 2-3 hours each for the structural engineers to screen. To work though all of the buildings will take the structural engineers 8 and a half days. It is very possible that after being screened once, work will be identified that must be completed before the buildings can be re-screened for potential occupancy. The length of time that various buildings will be down after a major earthquake is unknown. Generators are running in Moyer, Marston, and the Library. Why are generators running in buildings that can’t be re-entered? Can the generator from Moyer provide some light to the loop even if the building can’t be entered? Or recharge computers and cell phones as needed? I understand Marston and CIS. Question: would it make sense to change the order of buildings inspected to take advantage of the generators and multiple usage. Does facilities have plan for outdoor lighting for crowds? Jean Brown RN Director - Health Services Seattle Pacific University 3307 Third Ave W STE 110 Seattle WA 98119-1922