1. Receive appointment, briefing, and any appropriate materials from the Hazardous Materials Branch Director.
2. Read this entire Job Action Sheet and review incident management team chart (HICS Form 207). Put on position identification.
3. Notify your usual supervisor of your HICS assignment.
Document all key activities, actions, and decisions in an Operational Log (HICS Form 214) on a continual basis.
4. Appoint Victim Decontamination Unit members and complete the Branch Assignment List (HICS Form 204).
5. Brief Unit members on current situation, incident objectives and strategy; outline Unit action plan; and designate time for next briefing.
6. Ensure Unit members comply with safety policies and procedures and use appropriate personal protective equipment.
7. Oversee the set-up of decontamination area to perform patient, technical, and emergency decontamination for all ambulatory and non-ambulatory patients.
8. Ensure medical monitoring of decontamination team members through Employee Health & Well-Being Unit.
9. Collect and secure patient valuables; coordinate with Security Branch Director.
10. Ensure timely processing of patients through decontamination (consider 3-5 minutes for non-persistent viscous agent and 5-8 minutes for persistent/viscous or unknown agent).
11. Ensure appropriate antidote supplies are delivered, coordinate with Clinical Support Services.
12. Ensure proper wastewater collection and disposal, in compliance with recommendations from water authority, emergency management, and local hazardous material team/fire department.
13. Ensure mass decontamination system meets event needs.
14. Ensure ongoing staff rotation.
15. Coordinate any requests for external resources with Hazardous Materials Branch Director and Liaison Officer.
16. Attend briefings and meetings as needed.
17. Document all communications (internal and external) on an Incident Message Form (HICS Form 213). Provide a copy of the Incident Message Form to the Documentation Unit.
Ongoing Duties:
1. Meet regularly with the Hazardous Materials Branch Director for status reports, and relay important information to Unit Members.
2. Ensure staff are rotated and replaced as needed.
3. Track results of medical monitoring of staff; coordinate with the Employee Health & Well-Being Unit Leader.
4. Ensure hazard monitoring continues and issues are addressed; coordinate with the Safety Officer.
5. Ensure chain of custody of personal valuables in coordination with the Security Branch.
6. Ensure decontamination supplies are replaced as needed.
7. Prepare for the possibility of evacuation and/or the relocation of the decontamination area, if needed.
8. Communicate status with external authorities, as appropriate through Hazardous Materials Branch Director and in coordination with the Liaison Officer.
9. Develop and submit an action plan to the Hazardous Materials Branch Director when requested.
10. Advise Hazardous Materials Branch Director immediately of any operational issue you are not able to correct or resolve.
