Initial On-site Activities
Manage the Scene
- Notify appropriate authorities
- Control incident perimeter
- Establish Incident Command
- Identify radiation types and isotopes
- Measure levels of radiation continuously
- Ensure responder safety
- Wear personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Use personal dosimeters
- Consult radiation worker exposure guides
- Establish "zones of response"
- Establish locations for field activities
- Establish patient handling flows
Manage the Victims: Triage, Treat, Transport
- Perform lifesaving activities before managing radiation problems
- Perform triage using protocols appropriate to event type and number of victims
- Communicate with medical facilities that will receive patients
- Identify approximate number, type, severity of casualties
- Transport patients to appropriate facilities
- Incident managers will protect the public and responders from future radiation exposure by implementing
- Protective Actions
- Protective Action Guidelines
- Worker Exposure Guidelines
- Regular communications to the public with up-to-date, incident information