AS 4083:2010 pdf – Planning for emergencies—Health carefacilities

AS 4083:2010 pdf – Planning for emergencies—Health carefacilities.
The facility shall have plans to respond to emergencies. The facility should have an emergency planning committee to oversee emergency prevent ion. preparedness, response. and recovery, relevant to its size and function.
Consideration should be given to the following phases:
(a) Alert: Emergency possible—increase level of preparedness.
(b) Standby: Emergency imminent —prepare for implementation of response.
(c) Response: Emergency situation exists—implement response according to facility plans and in collaboration with other facilities as necessary.
(d) Stand down: Emergency abated—return to usual business.
Consideration should be given to the environmental consequences of any incident, plan or action pertaining to this Standard.
NOTE: AS 3745 contains detailed Sections on emergency response procedures.
3.2 EMERGENCY PLAN
3.2.1 General
The emergency plan shall include the following aspects:
(a) A statement of authority.
(b) Aims and objectives.
(c) Clearly detailed activation, notification and stand down procedures.
Facilities shall dedicate a unique telephone number comprising two- or three-digits for notitication of emergencies.
(d) An outline of control and coordination functions, with the roles and functions of the emergency planning committee being stated, where appropriate. The Emergency Coordinator and nominated Emergency Officers shall he listed with contact methods for all hours.
NOTES:
1 This may be facilitated by the use of action cards.
2 All staff should know whom to contact to initiate the apprOpriate action.
(e) A process to ensure that a progressive record of events. actions and decisions is kept:
including budgetary implications.
(f) Development of a logistics inventory, which lists personnel, physical facilities. equipment. services and supplies.
(g) Provisions for dealing effectively with all elements of emergency management, including prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.
(h) Activation methods for external services and agencies. such as police, ambulance, lire, state emergency services and other facilities, and escalation processes to relevant Slate/Territory health departments.
(i) Planning for the establishment and staffing of centres to carry out the additional
administration，coordination and communication functions required during anemergency. The plan shall include an alternative site for the centre.
The centre and the alternate centre shall be equipped or capable of being equipped atshort notice with multimodal internal and external communications facilities.