RBL Incident Response Flashcards
Who are the AROs and RO?
AROs are Katy Board and Rebecca Lindfelter
RO is Molly Stitt-Fischer
What is the primary means of communication in cases of emergency?
There are landlines on each fax machine in each suite. Our lab has a separate landline under the microwave.
If there is an injury in the RBL, where do you report?
During business hours, report to My Employee Health, if after hours report to Presby ER.
If you have an exposure to a non-human primate, who do you report to?
DLAR must be notified immediately so that samples can be taken for Herpes B virus.
What is your response plan to a minor physical injury?
A minor injury is a minor bruise, cut, or fall.
- Cease work and secure agents/animals
- Notify others and request assistance if needed.
- Exit following normal procedures
- Perform basic first aid in the locker room
- Report to My Employee Health
What is your response plan to a minor chemical exposure?
- Cease work and secure agents/animals
- Notify others
- Remove gloves and wash exposed skin for 15 minutes
- Exit following normal procedures and do basic aid in the locker room
- Report to My Employee Health with an SDS sheet
What is your response plan to an infectious agent exposure?
These include bites, needle stick, and splashes to mucous membranes.
- Cease work and secure agents/animals
- Notify others
- Perform immediate wound care using the Animal exposure kit - scrubbing for 15 minutes.
- Exit following normal procedures
- Basic first aid in the locker room
- Report to My Employee Health
What is your response plan to an eye injury?
Note: It is never safe to remove PAPR in an area where infectious agents are present.
- If possible, contain the agents/animals
- Notify others and get help if needed
- Get to exit shower and flush eyes in the shower.
- Report to Presby ED for treatment.
What is your response to an aerosol exposure?
Note: Proper use of engineering controls minimize this risk.
- Immediately notify PI and BSO
- Exit following normal procedures
- Report to employee health services or Presby ED.
Describe your response to a spill inside the BSC.
- Remain calm and secure any open infectious agents.
- Remove contaminated gloves and place in biohazard bag. Remove hands from BSC.
- Notify others that a spill occurred (signage) and don new pair of outer gloves.
- Wait 5 minutes for aerosols to be captured and then place towels around the spill and then on top.
- Pour vesphene around spilled area working from out to in. Allow 10 min. contact time.
- Dispose of trash and then clean surface again with vespene.
- Report spill to supervisor and BSO.
Describe your response to a spill outside the BSC.
- Notify others to remain out of the area.
- If you are injured, remove or decon soiled garb and leave via exit procedures
- If you are contaminated but not injured, remove or decon soiled garb and replace with clean garb prior to cleaning up the spill. There are emergency garb kits in the suite.
- Use paper towels to over spill. Pour disinfectant and allow contact time.
- Discard materials and and disinfect surface.
- Report spill to PI and BSO.
What is your response plan to a major medical emergency?
This is considered loss of of consciousness, labored breathing, loss of blood, ect.
- Call Pitt police and request emergency medical to BST3. Then, immediately assist the injured person. Secure agents after the individual is helped or instruct others to assist.
- Locate the medical emergency kit. There are door stops, instructions for responders, a move blanket, and scissors.
- In ABSL3 this is in the clean equipment airlock
- In BSL3 this is at each lab suite entrance room - Roll the injured person onto the move blanket and move to the suite entrance hall. Decon the person and get them into the garb room (or clean airlock).
- Decon and remove the persons PPE, place in a biohazard bag and return to the suite.
- Exit following normal procedure.
Where are the AEDs located?
In the clean corridor near RBL23
What would you do if the BSC is in alarm while you are working in it?
- Cease working and secure biological agents/animals.
- Check the thimble monitor and the magnahelic gauge.
- If these are good, then you can silence alarm and continue. Report alarm to PI.
- If these monitors are bad, cease work entirely and exit following normal procedures. Notify PI and BSO.
What is your response plan to a power outage?
- Secure agents/animals, close the sashes of BSCs
- Personnel are permitted to stay in the facility however must minimize aerosol producing activities and exit on the timeline established by the risk assessment committee.
