Color coding will aid employees in determining their route assignments. The use of floor plans or workplace maps which clearly show the emergency escape routes should be included in the emergency action plan.
Essential plant operations may also include chemical or manufacturing processes which must be shut down in stages or steps where certain employees must be present to assure that safe shut down procedures are completed. Essential plant operations may include the monitoring of plant power supplies, water supplies, and other essential services which cannot be shut down for every emergency alarm. The employer should list in detail the procedures to be taken by those employees who have been selected to remain behind to care for essential plant operations until their evacuation becomes absolutely necessary. The elements of the emergency action plan presented in paragraph 1910.38(c) can be supplemented by the following to more effectively achieve employee safety and health in an emergency.
Examples are: fire toxic chemical releases hurricanes tornadoes blizzards floods and others.
The emergency action plan should address emergencies that the employer may reasonably expect in the workplace.
