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ES&H Manual - Emergency Chapter

Mission Statements

Fire and Emergency Management Group |  SLAC Emergency Response Team | Building Assessment Team

Fire and Emergency Management Group:

Mission Statement

The SLAC fire and emergency management group manages programs that protect life and property, and that safeguard SLAC’s mission of open scientific inquiry, against the occurrence of fires and other emergency and disaster conditions.

Vision

The fire and emergency management group creates and maintains simple, effective, transparent, and well-integrated fire protection and emergency management programs. The group continually and systematically improves its programs in order to resourcefully minimize SLAC’s vulnerability to foreseeable emergencies.

Objectives

The SLAC fire and emergency management group anticipates plausible emergency and disaster scenarios and coordinates efforts to reduce their potential for harm in advance of occurrence. In the event of an emergency condition, the group supports organized efforts to:

• Prevent injuries and save lives
• Protect property, the environment and the SLAC mission
• Secure critical infrastructure and facilities
• Resume operations efficiently and safety

SLAC Emergency Response Team:

The SLAC Emergency Response Team (SERT) provides trained amateur emergency responders to assist SLAC senior management and professional emergency responders in the event of a regional catastrophe, such as a severe earthquake, when adequate professional response capability will not be available. Specific operations for which SERT members are trained include light search and rescue, [heavy rescue support--future], provision and use of site-stored emergency supplies, first aid, and triage. (Training course for heavy rescue support currently under development.) This assistance will be provided in a safe, effective and coordinated manner, under the direction of the SLAC incident command chain.

Building Assessment Team:

The SLAC Building Assessment Team (BAT) provides amateur assessors trained in the safe conduct of rapid exterior visualization of structures following an earthquake. These assessors, acting under the direction of the SLAC incident command chain, will quickly identify and tag buildings which show exterior signs of distress following significant shaking. The purpose of this activity is to safeguard life and health by prioritizing SLAC buildings for professional structural review. The assessors will post doorway signs that discourage unnecessary access to seemingly sound buildings prior to professional engineering assessment and that warn against access to buildings showing exterior signs of potential structural instability.