b'You should also establish a protocol for dealing with injuries which may occur on the sitewill be used for each specific emergency. It is also goodare in the kit. The name of your site first aid provider to have your site specific plan identify the employee(s)should be listed along with telephone numbers and on the site who are responsible for declaring anlocations for local hospitals, urgent care facilities and emergency, identifying the evacuation route anddoctors offices. Telephone numbers for EMTs and fire sounding the alarm. Finally, you are required to reviewstations should also be listed. At the same location you the EAP for the site with each employee who willshould identify as specifically as possible the location work on the site before they begin to work on the site.of the work site along with the instruction that when Review with each employee is also required any timecalling for an emergency squad the site location must changes are made to the plan. be given in case the person making the call is using a If you chose to add medical treatment emergenciescell phone with a different area code that the area code to your EAP you will need to be sure that they arein which the site is located. Identify who on the site is identified in such a way that they will not lead tothe person to call in a request for emergency medical confusion with emergency evacuation or responsecare. procedures required by the OSHA standard.I suggest that the site specific EAP be posted in Section 1926.50 sets out the requirements forseveral different locations on the job site. Do not providing medical care for employees on each jobforget you must review the plan with any employee site. These have been discussed in a previous article.assigned to the site, even if they arrive at the site Without rehashing that detail, your EAP, if you areseveral days into the project. I also suggest that you going to address medical situations should identifydate the plan and list the site name (if it has one) and the location for the first aid kit that is on the site.the specific location of the site, to establish when it You should also establish a protocol for dealing withwas created for the site.injuries which may occur on the site. This can extendBut remember the EAP is the tool to be used from applying a band aid to calling the emergencyprimarily to evacuate employees from the roof in squad. All employees on the site should be trained incase of a natural or man-made emergency. Another these procedures. I suggest that the extended EAP alsotopic that requires some explanation and which I require that the site supervisor check the first aid kitidentified as I was drafting the safety review letters is periodically to ensure that adequate first aid suppliestraining on hazard recognition. Finally as you will see www.mrca.orgMidwest Roofer 35'