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Emergency Action Plans & Preparedness
How to respond when an emergency hits: what an Emergency Action Plan must contain, how to report an emergency, alarm and evacuation, routes and assembly points and…
What you’ll learn
By the end of this course.
State when a written Emergency Action Plan is required and what it must contain — 1910.38(b),(c)
Describe how to report an emergency and the role of the alarm system — 1910.38(c),(d)
Explain evacuation: routes and exits, not using elevators, assembly points, and accounting for all employees — 1910.38(c)
Describe the procedures for employees who remain to operate critical equipment before evacuating — 1910.38(c)
Make the fight-or-evacuate decision for a fire and use the PASS technique on an extinguisher — 1910.157
Describe the purpose of a Fire Prevention Plan — 1910.39
References & standards
Grounded in the source material.
- 29 CFR 1910.38 — Emergency Action Plans
- 1910.39 — Fire Prevention Plans
- 1910.157 — Portable Fire Extinguishers
- 1910.38(c) — Minimum elements of an emergency action plan
This is awareness training. It supports your program; it is not a substitute for site-specific procedures or hands-on competency where a standard requires it.
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