Decontamination Drill on opening day, Thursday July 5th,
at 80 Spadina Ave
Construction of the mass decontamination and casualty response facility
was recently underway.
Emergency preparedness, in the event of an anthrax scare, or other
terrorist attacks, involves various decon drills that will help prepare
us better for later undergoing decon when we are required to do so.
It's very simple to undergo decon: all you need to do is
(1) Strip; (2) Wash; (3) Cover.
Here is a view of the three rooms on the men's side, as seen, from the top level
of the male decontimantion officer's station, where
these three easy steps are visible:
From the central hexagonal shaped
triage/observation room, decontamination officers can
view out through the smoked lexan walls,
into each of the six hexagonal shaped rooms.
- In the
men's stripdown and bagging room,
patients remove clothing,
jewelry, eyeglasses, and other personal effects;
- In the men's washdown room,
a sensor operated column shower, adapted from a
Bradley column shower by EXISTech Corporation (EXISTech
replaced the six knobs
with six infrared sensors), patients wash to remove all traces of
nuclear, biological, or chemical contamination;
- In the men's examination room,
patients are remotely examined by way of
a video communications link in the triage/observation room.
Patients considered to be free of contamination are permitted to receive
Tyvek (TM) jumpsuits and are allowed to leave.
Download a Decon Drill training video.
See
detailed documentation of the sensor operated
column showers with image-based video motion detection sensors.
Return to mass decontamination facility
Why are we doing this? Here's some
excerpts from various government and
industry WWW sites.