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OSHA CHALLENGE - CONSTRUCTION TRACK - STAGES AT A GLANCE

ELEMENT: Emergency Preparedness and Response

3 .  Hazard Prevention & Control >>  Emergency Preparedness and Response

Stage I

 

Stage II Stage III VPPAC.org suggestive
best practices
  • Establish and communicate to company and subcontractor employees written procedures for addressing responses responding to all types of emergencies.
  • Conduct at least one evacuation drill to assess effectiveness of how procedures.
  • Make emergency services available on all shifts such as emergency transportation, EMT’s, emergency clinics, or hospital emergency rooms.
  • Ensure at least one employee trained in first aid & CPR for each shift.
  • Require subcontractors to adopt the company emergency procedures or equivalent.
  • Continue communicating emergency procedures and providing emergency medical services.
  • Establish an Emergency Response Team including first aid and CPR trained employees and subcontractors
  • Conduct at least one drill with company and subcontractor employees and assess its effectiveness and follow-up on recommendations to improve emergency evacuation drills.
  • Continue to improve written emergency procedures for responding to emergencies on all shifts.
  • Review results of previous drills and conduct an annual drill.
  • Establish one operational emergency response team for each shift.
  • Ensure full implementation of site’s emergency preparedness and response plan.