Members of the service, especially the auxiliaries, 

 should receive suitable training in first aid and medi- 

 cal self-help skills, including how to deal with fallout 

 and biological and chemical warfare agents. New and 

 improved courses in these skills are available from 

 local civil defense directors. 



The service should be organized in teams to carry 

 out specific emergency functions. First aid stations 

 need to be established as treatment centers and assem- 

 bly points for first aid workers and other medical as- 

 sistants. "Dry runs" should be conducted periodically 

 under conditions which are as realistic as possible. 



It must be emphasized that the responsibilities of the 

 first aid and medical personnel do not come to an end 



once employees are installed in shelters. Maintaining 

 health and preventing disease in congested shelter 

 living will be critical, and the plan must insure that 

 qualified members of the service are on duty in each 

 shelter. 



The plan should include early inventory of the plant's 

 medical and surgical supplies, equipment and facilities. 

 Such items should be increased as necessary to meet 

 at least the minimum estimated disaster needs. 



Cooperation in the first aid and medical plan must 

 be guaranteed by top management. It must be coor- 

 dinated with other emergency services, with the com- 

 munity civil defense plan and, if possible, with similar 

 plans of neighboring plants. 



RESCUE OPERATIONS 



The function of rescue operations is to be prepared 

 to save any plant employees who might become en- 

 dangered by disaster. 



A company's most valuable resource is its personnel. 

 So highly integrated is the work of the first aid and 



rescue teams that it is preferable to have these func- 

 tions combined or members of the teams trained in 

 both skills. 



Rescue teams should be given standard rescue train- 

 ing, augmented by training in special skills which may 

 be required by the nature of the plant's operation. 

 There are a number of civil defense rescue schools, and 

 many community rescue teams are adequately equipped 

 and trained to provide excellent instructions for a 

 company's rescue service. 



The functions of the rescue service must be coordi- 

 nated closely with police and fire, as well as first aid 

 and medical service. In this area also, a plant may 

 benefit significantly by joining neighboring companies 

 in industrial mutual aid associations. Regular drills 

 will be needed to perfect techniques. 



RADIOLOGICAL DEFENSE 



Every food plant should have personnel trained in 

 radiological monitoring and defense. Each plant, 

 warehouse or office should train one or more radiologi- 

 cal monitoring specialists or teams to be responsible 

 for determining radioactive fallout intensity. 



A radiological monitoring team should be assigned 

 to duty in each shelter area. Public shelters in build- 

 ings that have been stocked by the Federal Government 

 already contain radiological monitoring instruments. 

 In addition to monitoring fallout for the safety of per- 

 sonnel, the radiological monitoring teams can assist in 

 insuring the safety of all food products. 



If feasible, individuals selected for key radiological 

 monitoring assignments should be sent to the Office of 

 Civil Defense radiological defense training schools, 

 preferably to a school for instructors so that they can 

 train other radiological monitors in both the plant and 



the community. 



Civil defense officials will furnish guidance on the 

 amount and type of equipment which plant civil de- 

 fense coordinators will need in order to maintain an 

 emergency monitoring capability. 



Employees selected to be monitors should complete 

 the monitor training course recommended by OCD, or 

 its equivalent. All employees should be educated re- 

 garding the hazards of fallout, the procedures for indi- 

 vidual and collective protection against those hazards, 

 and, if appropriate, should be informed of the availa- 

 bility of home monitoring equipment, and instructed 

 in its use. 



Food plant managers have a special radiological de- 

 fense problem not shared by most industries. Con- 

 trary to the majority of industries, food processors deal 

 with raw materials, processes and products that are 



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