Hello- please critique my safety plan in event of chemical attack or airborne illness. As mentioned in previous posts, I work in NYC and live 20 miles outside city. In this plan, I am assuming that the incident will occur in NYC and the air in our town will be safe (but as detailed below, we will be taking precautions until we know its safe).
Initial Steps;
1. Upon hearing of emergency, wife turns off electric heat or HVAC
2. She moves bug out materials to safe room.
3. Safe room is master bath on second floor (one window)
4. Wife prepares skin decontamination room for my arrival home. I will be arriving wearing a mask and level B chem suit
5. Wife places bug sprayer mixed with 10 parts water to 1 part water outside the garage. She also places extra rubber gloves, rags, talcum powder and heavy duty brush.
6. Wife removes one window pane from garage. She covers open space with polyethylene sheeting, secured by duct tape. She makes a small hole in sheeting and runs hose with pressure nozzle attached through the hole. Wife then turns on hose so that it is primed and ready for use.
7. Wife travels with baby to safe room.
Plan for safe room:
1. Wife covers all -Cover all window seams and joints
2. Wife entirely covers the one window with polyethylene sheeting, sealing the sheeting to wall thoroughly with duct tape.
3. Wife places adhesive tape in the space between door and floor and covers with a wet towel.
4. Wife does not use water sources in bathroom until certain they are not affected.
Plan for decontamination:
1. When I arrive home, I access materials left outside garage.
2. Wife is able to help hose me off from inside the garage if we deem air at hometown is safe. She is only allowed to leave safe room if notified by me after my arrival home.
3. Otherwise I spray myself with the bleach and water mixture, then hose off thoroughly with water.
4. I then remove and discard suit. I don rubber gloves, cover myself in talculm powder, use gauze pads to wipe off powder after 30 seconds.
5. I thoroughly hose off again.
6. I then enter the home.
After I am clean:
1. If it is determined my risk of contamination is low then I join my family in the safe room and it is resealed.
2. If the air in my town may be affected or I am uncertain if I properly cleansed myself, I then establish my own safe room, following the same procedures as my wife. I choose a walk in closet, close to the master bath so that we can communicate through the walls. The walk in closet will not have windows.
My direct questions
1. where would you improve my plan?
2. Is the master bath a good choice for a safe room?
Thank you.
Initial Steps;
1. Upon hearing of emergency, wife turns off electric heat or HVAC
2. She moves bug out materials to safe room.
3. Safe room is master bath on second floor (one window)
4. Wife prepares skin decontamination room for my arrival home. I will be arriving wearing a mask and level B chem suit
5. Wife places bug sprayer mixed with 10 parts water to 1 part water outside the garage. She also places extra rubber gloves, rags, talcum powder and heavy duty brush.
6. Wife removes one window pane from garage. She covers open space with polyethylene sheeting, secured by duct tape. She makes a small hole in sheeting and runs hose with pressure nozzle attached through the hole. Wife then turns on hose so that it is primed and ready for use.
7. Wife travels with baby to safe room.
Plan for safe room:
1. Wife covers all -Cover all window seams and joints
2. Wife entirely covers the one window with polyethylene sheeting, sealing the sheeting to wall thoroughly with duct tape.
3. Wife places adhesive tape in the space between door and floor and covers with a wet towel.
4. Wife does not use water sources in bathroom until certain they are not affected.
Plan for decontamination:
1. When I arrive home, I access materials left outside garage.
2. Wife is able to help hose me off from inside the garage if we deem air at hometown is safe. She is only allowed to leave safe room if notified by me after my arrival home.
3. Otherwise I spray myself with the bleach and water mixture, then hose off thoroughly with water.
4. I then remove and discard suit. I don rubber gloves, cover myself in talculm powder, use gauze pads to wipe off powder after 30 seconds.
5. I thoroughly hose off again.
6. I then enter the home.
After I am clean:
1. If it is determined my risk of contamination is low then I join my family in the safe room and it is resealed.
2. If the air in my town may be affected or I am uncertain if I properly cleansed myself, I then establish my own safe room, following the same procedures as my wife. I choose a walk in closet, close to the master bath so that we can communicate through the walls. The walk in closet will not have windows.
My direct questions
1. where would you improve my plan?
2. Is the master bath a good choice for a safe room?
Thank you.
