Current through Register No. 40, October 3, 2024
(a) Each facility
shall have an individual or group, known as an emergency management committee,
with the authority for developing, implementing, exercising, and evaluating the
emergency management program. The 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.
(b) The emergency management committee shall
develop and institute a written emergency preparedness plan (plan) to respond
to a disaster or an emergency.
(c)
The plan in (b) above shall:
(1) Include
site-specific plans for the protection of all persons on-site in the event of
fire, natural disaster, or severe weather and human-caused emergency to
include, but not be limited to, missing clients and bomb threat;
(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 Incident Command System (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 accessing Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM),
if necessary;
(8) Include the
management of clients, particularly with respect to physical and clinical
issues to include relocation of clients with their medical record including the
medication administration records, if time permits, as detailed in the
emergency plan;
(9) Include an
educational program for the staff, to provide 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 plan for
radiological emergency preparedness, include this plan in the event of a
radiological disaster or emergency.
(d) The facility shall contact the local
emergency management director annually to determine if any revisions are needed
based upon current trends in emergency management, local policy changes, and
hazard changes. Annually, the facility shall participate in a community-based
disaster drill which may be a table top discussion drill with outside
agencies.
