Directions for Fire/Emergency Evacuation Drill

Core-6RCP/Micro-6BT Laboratories

  1. A member of the safety committee or designee (the evacuation coordinator) will initiate the drill.
  2. Clerks/Specimen processors will dial “121-6” - 6RCP or “121-9” – 6BT and announce “Code F” (for an actual fire) or “Code F Drill (for a fire drill), evacuate the laboratory”. For any other emergency evacuation, “Evacuate the laboratory. This is NOT a drill.”
  1. All personnel are to exit the Lab and meet:

•6RC: in the atrium hallway outside the double fire doors (at the end of the break-room hallway).

•6BT: by the A elevator outside the double fire doors.

  1. Lab personnel will assist any disabled individuals.
  2. In the case of an Evacuation Drill: if there are outpatients in the drawing room or waiting for phlebotomy, stay with the patient and continue the procedure. In the case of an Actual Evacuation, cease the procedure and evacuate the patients.
  1. Supervisors must account for all personnel. Take the daily schedule to the evacuation meeting site.
  1. Each employee should sign the evacuation/drill log to document presence/participation.
  2. Instructions will be distributed instructing managers/employees how to document drill participation in the Core Pathology ICON site.
  1. Return to the laboratory ONLY when indication by the evacuation coordinator.
  1. Clerical/processing staff will announce “Code F Drill, All Clear” on the overhead paging system. In the case of an actual evacuation, instructions will be given.
  1. Familiarize yourself with the evacuation egress diagrams. They are posted at every exit of the Clinical Labs.
  1. Be prepared at anytime to tell an inspector or auditor how you would evacuate the lab from your present position AND how the acronyms RACE and PASS fit into our lab’s Fire Safety Procedure.

Please direct any questions regarding these instructions to your supervisor or to a Core Lab Safety Committee member:

Jon Maakestad, Lori Austin, Barb Swanson, Matt Zubcic or Wendy Voigt. 05/21/2007.

Directions for Fire/Emergency Evacuation Drill of the Core Laboratory – 6RCP

  1. A member of the safety committee or designee will initiate the evacuation drill.

This individual will be the evacuation coordinator.

  1. Specimen Control will dial “121-6” and announce “Code F” (for an actual fire) or “Code F Drill (for a fire drill), evacuate the laboratory”. For any other emergency evacuation, “Evacuate the laboratory. This is NOT a drill.”
  1. All personnel are to exit the Core Lab and meet in the atrium hallway outside the double fire doors (at the end of the break-room hallway).
  2. Lab personnel will assist any disabled individuals.
  3. In the case of an Evacuation Drill: if there are outpatients in the drawing room or waiting for phlebotomy, stay with the patient and continue the procedure. In the case of an Actual Evacuation, cease the procedure and evacuate the patients.
  1. Supervisors must account for all personnel. Take the daily schedule to the evacuation meeting site.
  1. Each employee should sign the evacuation/drill log to document presence/participation.
  1. Return to the laboratory ONLY when indication by the evacuation coordinator.
  1. Specimen Control will announce “Code F Drill, All Clear” on the overhead paging system. In the case of an actual evacuation, instructions will be given.
  1. Familiarize yourself with the evacuation egress diagrams. They are posted at every exit of the Core Laboratory.
  1. Be prepared at anytime to tell an inspector or auditor how you would evacuate the lab from your present position AND how the acronyms RACE and PASS fit into our lab’s Fire Safety Procedure.

Please direct any questions regarding these instructions to your supervisor or to a Core Lab Safety Committee member: Jon Maakestad, Lori Austin, Barb Swanson, or Wendy Voigt. 05/21/2007.