EMPLOYEE WELCOME GUIDE 14 Facility Alerts EVENT Evacuation Fire/Smoke Alarm Hazardous/Materials Spill Mass Casualty Medical Decontamination Surge Capacity Utility/Technology Interruption Weather RECOMMEND PLAIN LANGUAGE Facility Alert + Evacuation + Descriptor + Location Facility Alert + Fire/Smoke Alarm + Descriptor + Location Facility Alert + Chemical Spill + Descriptor + Location Facility Alert + Mass Casualty + Descriptor (may have levels) + Location Facility Alert + Medical Decontamination + Descriptor (biological, chemical, radiological, or unknown) + Location Facility Alert + Surge Capacity + Descriptor (may have levels) + Location Facility Alert + Type of Service Interruption + Descriptor + Location Facility Alert + (Instruction) + Weather + Descriptor (National Weather Service Statement) + Location AlertUs MESSAGE Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement Yes. Same as announcement SAMPLE SCRIPTING Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, Immediate Evacuation, Unit 5 Central. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, Fire Alarm activation Unit 5 North. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, Chemical Spill, 1st Floor Laboratory. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, External Mass Casualty Incident, Emergency Department. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, Medical Decontamination event, Emergency Department. Decontamination Team please report to the Emergency Department. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert, Internal Mass Casualty Incident, Emergency Department. Overhead: Your attention please, Facility Alert IT Network Downtime, Implement downtime procedures for (patient charting, VoIP phones, and paging systems) Overhead: Attention, Facility Alert Tornado Warning. Move away from windows to interior portions of the building. The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Warning for the local area in effect until (time). CULTURE OF SAFETY Emergency Alerts Emergency alerts, with the exception of the security alert for a bomb threat, are announced by an overhead paging system. Emergency alerts are communicated through the same plain language text at all hospitals.