Current through Register No. 40, October 3, 2024
(a) Each facility
shall have a group, known as an emergency management committee, with the
authority for developing, implementing, exercising, and evaluating an emergency
management program.
(b) The
emergency management committee shall include the facility administrator and
others who have knowledge of the facility and the capability to identify
resources from key functional areas within the facility and shall solicit
applicable external representation, as appropriate.
(c) An emergency management program shall
include, at a minimum, the following elements:
(1) The emergency management plan, as
described in
He-P 818.23(d) and (e)
;
(2) The roles and responsibilities of the
committee members;
(3) How the plan
is implemented, exercised, and maintained; and
(4) Accommodation for emergency food and
water supplies.
(d) The
emergency management committee shall develop and institute a written emergency
preparedness plan (plan) to respond to a disaster or an emergency.
(e) The plan in He-P 806.23(d) shall:
(1) Include site-specific plans for the
protection of all persons on-site in the event of fire, natural disaster,
severe weather, and human-caused emergencies to include, but not be limited to,
missing participants and bomb threats;
(2) Be approved by the local emergency
management director and reviewed and approved, as appropriate, by the local
fire department;
(3) Be available
to all personnel;
(4) Be based on
realistic conceptual events;
(5) Be
modeled on the ICS in coordination with local emergency response
agencies;
(6) Include the
facility's response to both short-term and long-term interruptions in the
availability of utility service in the disaster or emergency, including
establishing contingency plans for continuity of essential building systems or
evacuation to include the following, as applicable;
a. Electricity;
b. Water;
c. Ventilation;
d. Fire protection systems;
e. Fuel sources;
f. Medical gas and vacuum systems, if
applicable; and
g. Communications
systems;
(7) Include a
plan for alerting and managing staff in a disaster, and for accessing Critical
Incident Stress Management (CISM), if necessary;
(8) Include the management of participants,
particularly with respect to physical and clinical issues to include relocation
of participants with their participant record including the medication
administration records, if time permits, as detailed in the emergency
plan;
(9) Include an educational
program for the staff, which provides an overview of the components of the
emergency management program, concepts of the ICS, and the staff's specific
duties and responsibilities; and
(10) If the facility is located within 10
miles of a nuclear power plant and is part of the New Hampshire Radiological
Emergency Response Plan (RERP), include the required elements of the
RERP.
(f) Annually, the
facility shall participate in a community-based disaster drill which may be a
table top discussion drill with outside agencies.
(g) The facility shall review and update its
emergency plan, as needed, as a result of drills and exercises, real event(s),
and/or annual plan review. Any substantial changes to the plan as a result of
drills and exercises, real events, shall be submitted to the local Emergency
Management Director for review
(h)
Notwithstanding He-P 806.23(a) -(f), when an NEWCC is a part of a larger
institution which has a comprehensive emergency preparedness plan, the NEWCC
may use the institution's plan, and if so, it shall:
(1) Identify the portions of the plan that
pertain to the NEWCC in a separate document for use by NEWCC
personnel;
(2) Provide annual
training to prepare personnel in its application as required by He-P 806.23(f);
and
(3) Review and update the plan
as required by
He-P 818.23(g)
above.
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