N.H. Admin. Code § He-P 808.23

Current through Register No. 45, November 7, 2024

Section He-P 808.23 - Emergency Preparedness

(a) Each facility shall have an emergency management committee, with the authority for developing, implementing, exercising, and evaluating the emergency management program.

(b) The committee shall include:

(1) The facility administrator;

(2) Others who have knowledge of the facility and the capability to identify resources from key functional areas within the facility; and

(3) An applicable external representation, if the licensee is a high complexity lab, including but not limited to:

a. Elected state and local officials;

b. Police, fire, civil defense, and public health professionals;

c. Environment, transportation, and hospital officials;

d. Facility representatives; and

e. Representatives from community groups and the media.

(c) The emergency management committee shall develop and institute a written emergency preparedness plan (plan) to respond to a disaster or an emergency.

(d) The plan in (c) above shall:

(1) Include site-specific plans for the protection of all persons on-site in the event of a fire, natural disaster, severe weather, chemical emergency, or human-caused emergency;

(2) Be reviewed and approved by the local emergency management director;

(3) Be available to all personnel;

(4) Be based on realistic conceptual events;

(5) Be modeled on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Incident Command System (ICS) in coordination with local emergency response agencies;

(6) Provide that all personnel designated or involved in the facility's plan shall be supplied with a means of identification, such as vests, baseball caps, or hard hats, which shall be worn at all times in a visible location during the emergency;

(7) Include the facility's response to both short-term and long-term interruptions in the availability of utility services 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; and

g. Communications systems;

(8) Include a process for alerting and managing personnel in a disaster, and accessing Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), if necessary;

(9) Identify a designated media spokesperson to issue news releases and an area where the media can be assembled, where they won't interfere with the operations of the facility;

(10) Reflect measures needed to restore operational capability with consideration of fiscal aspects because of restoration costs and possible cash flow losses associated with the disruption;

(11) Include an educational, competency-based program for the personnel, to provide an overview of the components of the emergency management program and concepts of the ICS and the personnel's specific duties and responsibilities; and

(12) 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 process in the plan in the event of a radiological disaster or emergency.

(e) The facility shall conduct and document with a detailed log, including personnel signatures, 2 drills a year at least one of which shall rehearse mass casualty response for the facility with emergency services, disaster receiving stations, or both.

N.H. Admin. Code § He-P 808.23

Derived from Number 37, Filed September 14, 2023, Proposed by #13710, Effective 8/2/2023, Expires 8/2/2033.