All employees need to know their specific roles and responsibilities during an emergency. Your facility’s EAP needs to be reviewed when employees are hired, when there is a change in the plan, and when an employee’s role changes. Most facilities review their EAP, conduct review trainings, and have at least one drill annually — even if nothing has changed — to reinforce emergency training.
EAP Training Includes:
- Threats or hazards that may be encountered
- Notification and communication procedures for reporting an emergency
- Individual roles and responsibilities, including shutdown procedures
- Emergency response procedures, including evacuations, shelter in place, and any other facility-specific plans
- The location and use of response equipment and personal protective equipment, such as respirators
- How to assist visitors, people who may speak another language, and the disabled in an emergency
- Assembly points and accountability
- How family members can obtain information about employees if there is an emergency
- The name of the facility’s public information officer who is designated as the facility’s representative to speak to the media regarding the emergency
