Time-limited Acute Health Crisis (continued)

Interviews with key contacts in Cuyahoga County underscored the fact that employees must be trained and empowered to make facility-specific emergency decisions. It is especially important that EHS facility managers train their employees on actions to take when a time-limited acute health crisis is discovered.

Given the extremely hazardous nature of substances used and stored at these facilities, quick appropriate actions by the first person to discover the crisis could easily mean the difference between life and death. Facility managers must train their employees how to contain and/or control releases. Such training should be as facility-specific as possible.

Notification systems for these facilities must be easily accessed so that any employee, any place in the facility, can activate the alarm.