(HPP) Performance Measure Manual

HPP 14.1
HPP 14.1: Responder Safety and Health
Introduction
The responder safety and health capability describes the ability of
healthcare organizations to protect the safety and health of
healthcare workers from a variety of hazards during emergencies
and disasters. This includes processes to equip, train, and provide
other resources needed to ensure that healthcare workers at the
highest risk for adverse exposure, illness, and injury, are
adequately protected from all hazards during response and
recovery operations. The goal is to assist healthcare organizations
to ensure that no illnesses or injury occur to any first receiver,
medical facility staff member, or other skilled support personnel as
a result of preventable exposure to secondary trauma, chemical or
radiological release, infectious disease, or physical and emotional
stress after the initial incident or during decontamination and
incident follow-up.
To integrate this capability, public health and healthcare
emergency planners should coordinate how best to address public
health and healthcare worker safety needs during the
development of strategically placed caches of equipment, supplies
and pharmaceuticals that would provide timely resource
assistance. This is specifically outlined in the functions of Capability
14 from the Healthcare Preparedness Capabilities and crossreferenced
to the Public Health Preparedness Capability.
Capability Functions
• Assist healthcare organizations with additional
pharmaceutical protection for healthcare workers
• Provide assistance to healthcare organizations with access
to additional Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for
healthcare workers during response
HPP 14.1: Responder Safety
and Health
Measure 14.1:
Percent of HCCs that have systems and processes in place to
preserve healthcare system functions and to protect all of the
coalition member employees (including healthcare and nonhealthcare
employees)
Performance Target:
100% by the end of the project period (Year 1 data will be used to
establish baselines)
Data Elements:
• Has the HCC implemented an occupational safety and health
plan to protect employees of the organizations within the HCC
and their families, based on an HVA conducted within the last
3 years?
• Do HCC member organizations have access to the elements of
an occupational safety and health plan?
• Has the HCC successfully tested its systems and processes to
preserve healthcare system functions and to enhance support
of all HCC member employees (including healthcare and nonhealthcare
employees) in an exercise or event? Has this taken
place within the past year?
• Has the HCC successfully implemented lessons learned and
corrective actions from the exercise or event within the past
year?
Key Questions
Thinking It Through
• Does the HCC have a responder safety and occupational health
plan to preserve healthcare system function and protect HCC
member employees?
• Has the HCC designated a Safety Officer within the ICS for the
local, regional, or State jurisdiction?
• How does the HCC continuously monitor responder safety and
health resources, support and protections?
• Proper functioning of PPE and equipment?
• Awareness of on-site hazards?
• Oversight of decontamination?
• Documentation of all actions and injuries/illnesses?
• Emergency and psychological medical care?
• What processes are in place to ensure HCC member
organizations have access to responder safety and health
resources, support and protections?
• Has the HCC demonstrated the ability to maintain:
• Continuous monitoring of responder safety and health?
• Proper functioning of PPE and equipment?
• Awareness of on-site hazards?
• Oversight of decontamination?
• Documentation of all actions and injuries/illnesses?
• Emergency and psychological medical care?
Responder Safety and Health
Pre-Incident
Healthcare
Response
Preparedness
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