College of Science
Safety Department
EMERGENCIES STAFF TRAINING PROGRAMS
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EMERGENCIES STAFF TRAINING PROGRAMS
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Emergencies can come in all shapes and sizes. They can come in the form of disasters such as earthquakes, fires, plane crashes or even the release of chlorine gas from a large public pool facility. Other emergencies can take the form of hazardous waste spills, car accidents or utility outages. On the darker side are terrorist activities, civil disturbances and sexual assaults. The examples given here do not cover all the possible scenarios that would define an emergency.Unless you are properly trained and have the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), please do not attempt to deal with any chemical, biological or radiological accident/spill or any condition that may involve chemical, biological or radiological materials. San Jose State has an
Emergency Response
Plan which is on file and can be reviewed during normal business hours.
This plan is also called the Hazardous Materials Management or Business
Plan. Parts
of this plan include: Pre-emergency
planning and coordination with outside parties ·
The Fire Department has been sent
copies of chemical inventories and locations. ·
The Fire Department will be called
in the event that a spill or incident is too large for our Hazardous Materials
Technicians personnel to handle. ·
The primary and supporting police
and fire departments have been designated.
The Emergency Coordinator is responsible for all emergency activities
until authorities from one of the primary emergency response agencies relieve
them. ·
Other agencies that may need to be
contacted during an emergency are detailed (i.e. OSHA, Santa Clara Regional
Water Quality Control Board, Regional EPA Office, etc). ·
Hospitals and other emergency
medical facilities. Besides the campus emergency response plan the College of Science (COS) also has two other main safety programs. One is the Chemical Hygiene Plan that covers the storage of chemicals within the COS and the necessary procedures to follow in case of a hazardous waste spill or accident. The other program is the Blood Borne Pathogen Control Program that covers all of the microbiological materials found within the COS and policies and procedures covering the handling, storage and cleanup of these materials. The
University Police Department (UPD) has a manual that goes over common
emergencies and the proper response(s) in their Emergency Procedures Handbook
that is available from the website: http://www.sjsu.edu/police/. Click
on the Emergency Preparedness on the right hand side and you will then have a
choice of Emergency Procedures Handbook and/or Family Safety Handbook.
If you don’t have Adobe Acrobat 9 (reader), you can download it
(free) from http://www.adobe.com.
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