Poison Control Center (PCC) Provides Information to Incident Command Staff
In addition to providing toxicology advice, PCC’s generate certain data as a routine course of their duties that can be very useful to incident command staff. As PCC’s begin to respond to calls from the public, they record information on:
- Identities and numbers of callers
- Location where exposures may have occurred
- Symptoms observed/reported.
No comments- 25 November 2011
- Category: Emergency Planning - Poison Control Center
Incident Command System (ICS) Provides Information to Poison Control Center (PCC)
What information would a Poison Control Center (PCC) need from emergency response agencies?
The following information might become available through Incident Command System (ICS) liaisons and may include:
• Notification from spill reports
• Exact location of spill and/or releases
• Amount of material spilled and type
• Potential health/environment impacts
• Plume maps and weather conditions
• Fact sheets
• Sensitive populations (children, elderly, child bearing, etc)
• Contamination maps/zone of contamination
• Site photos
• Sensitive issue (terrorism events, national disasters, political, etc)
- 25 November 2011
- Category: Emergency Planning - Poison Control Center
Incident Commander activating Poison Control Center
Lessons learned in activating the Poison Control Center (PCC). The PCC was not activated, as a result there was no formal documentation of residents suffering acute health effects. Instead when residents visited the local hospital emergency room complaining of acute health effects they were informed the EPA declared the environment safe and their medical problem was not incident related. Below is an excerpt from an EPA Region 6 LEPC update on the activation of the PCC.
The initial decision to activate a PCC would probably be made by the Incident Commander (IC). The activation of a PCC may be publicly announced by a Public Information Officer (PIO), and/or a Liaison Officer (LNO).
Read more...- 19 November 2011
- Category: Emergency Planning - Poison Control Center
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