Major incident declaring

All hospital plans should include provisions for a proportionate response to the arrival of contaminated casualties, with procedures for rapid lock-down and establishing entry and exit restrictions. Most ambulance service plans already provide for sending an immediate alert to all hospitals designated to receive casualties whenever a major incident is declared. Although patients may have already self-evacuated before the emergency services arrive, ambulance plans should also provide for warning all... 

Because of the variation in the incidence of diffraent forms of cancer, it became recognized that environmental, occupational, and lifestyle factors play a major role in cancer risk. As early as 1964, the WHO declared that 75% of all human cancer was affected by extrinsic factors. In 1965, Ihe Intranational Agency for Research on Cancer (lARC) was created to focus on human cancer and Ihe relationship of humans to their environment. 

In a major company with exceptionally good OSHA recordable and lost workday case rates, the chief executive officer declared that results were still not acceptable and that significant reductions in injuries and illnesses were to be made. The extensive and well-qualified staff of safety professionals convinced management to use incident investigation as one means of reinforcing its intent to achieve better results. 

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