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    This document outlines the procedures that must be included in a contingency plan for hazardous waste facilities. A contingency plan must describe emergency procedures, arrangements with local emergency responders, contact information for emergency coordinators, and a list of emergency equipment. It must also include an evacuation plan for facility personnel to quickly leave in the event of fires, explosions, or hazardous material releases.

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    This document outlines the procedures that must be included in a contingency plan for hazardous waste facilities. A contingency plan must describe emergency procedures, arrangements with local emergency responders, contact information for emergency coordinators, and a list of emergency equipment. It must also include an evacuation plan for facility personnel to quickly leave in the event of fires, explosions, or hazardous material releases.

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    This document outlines the procedures that must be included in a contingency plan for hazardous waste facilities. A contingency plan must describe emergency procedures, arrangements with local emergency responders, contact information for emergency coordinators, and a list of emergency equipment. It must also include an evacuation plan for facility personnel to quickly leave in the event of fires, explosions, or hazardous material releases.

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    Contingency Measures and

    Procedures
    Contingency Plan is a written
    emergency procedures plan which
    describes what actions must be taken to
    minimize hazards from fires,
    explosions or unplanned releases of
    hazardous waste or hazardous waste
    constituents to air, soil or water.
    What Must a Contingency Plan
    Include?
    1. A description of the emergency
    procedures;
    2. A description of arrangements;
    3. An up-to-date list of names,
    addresses and phone numbers (office
    and home) of all persons qualified to
    act as emergency coordinator.
    4. An up-to-date list of all emergency
    equipment at the facility.
    5. An evacuation plan for facility
    personnel.
    Evacuation is the immediate and rapid
    movement of people away from the
    threat or actual occurrence of a hazard.
    Decontamination is the reduction or
    removal of chemical agents.
    Isolation refers to various measures
    taken to prevent contagious diseases
    from being spread from a patient to
    other patients, health care workers, and
    visitors, or from others to a particular
    patient.

    Forms of Isolation
    a. Strict isolation is used for diseases
    spread through the air and in some
    cases by contact.
    b. Contact isolation is used to prevent
    the spread of diseases that can be
    spread through contact with open
    wounds.
    c. Respiratory isolation is used for
    diseases that are spread through
    particles that are exhaled.
    d. Blood and body fluids precaution is
    used when there is concern about
    communicable diseases found in a
    patient's body fluid.
    e. Reverse isolation is a method to
    prevent a patient in a compromised
    health situation from being contaminated
    by other people or objects.

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