Emergency preparedness downloads
Premier emergency preparedness
task force
- Summary of Task Force's findings and next steps
- Summary breakout sessions
- Summary Premier’s internal disaster team response to Katrina
Building environment protection and construction issues
- NIOSH guidance for protecting building environments from airborne chemical, biological, or radiological attack
- NIOSH guidance -filtration and air cleaning systems to protect building environments
- ASHRAE Building protection
- Army Corps of Engineers: Protecting buildings and their occupants from airborne hazards
- Construction matrix-ICRA Construction Matrix or ICRA sample tool
Safety preparedness products available under Premier contracts
JAMA Consensus Documents:
Presentations from Premier's Bioterrorism Readiness Networking Forum Baltimore, MD - July 17, 2002
- Supply chain management after September 11th
- Public relations on terrorism's front line
- The view from inside Washington
- Zip file of all three presentations
Hurricane relief downloads
Mold
- Population-specific recommendations for protection from exposure to mold in buildings flooded after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, by specific activity and risk factor
- Mold: Prevention strategies and possible health effects in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita
- A Brief Guide to Mold, Moisture, and Your Home - June 29
Information from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Download file - Mold Prevention Strategies and Possible Health Effects in the Aftermath of Hurricanes and Major Floods - MMWR Article - June 29
Extensive water damage after major hurricanes and floods increases the likelihood of mold contamination in buildings. This report provides information on how to limit exposure to mold and how to identify and prevent mold-related health effects.
Download file - Key Facts About Hurricane and Flood Recovery - Updated June 30
Information to protect your health and safety after a hurricane or flood.
Download file
Other general downloads
- 17 Critical Benchmarks for Bioterrorism Preparedness
- AHA chemical and bioterrorism preparedness checklist
- AHA member advisory: Preparedness for potential terrorist attacks
- AHRQ Bioterrorism emergency planning and preparedness questionnaire for healthcare facilities
- Anthrax and bioterrorism
- Anthrax chapter of Control of Communicable Diseases Manual (17th Edition)
- APIC guideline for selection and use of disinfectants
- APIC mass casualty disaster plan checklist
- Army Corps of Engineers: Protecting buildings and their occupants from airborne hazards
- Bioterrorism infection control: Guidelines for patient management
- Bioterrorism readiness plan: A template for healthcare facilities
- Botulism and bioterrorism
- CDC anthrax slides - .pdf
- CDC Health Advisory: How to handle anthrax & other biological agent threats
- CDC issues revised anthrax guidelines for state and local health officials
- CDC protocol for identification of bacillus anthracis
- Customer letter, advanced sterilization products, Johnson & Johnson
- Cyanide fact sheet
- Disaster readiness: A message to America's hospitals
- ECRI Advisory - Selecting personal protective equipment for chemical and bioterrorism preparedness: Risks and costs
- Facts about pneumonic plague
- Hazard Vulnerability Analysis
- Health and Human Services 2003 Fact Sheet
- Hemorrhagic fever viruses as biological weapons
- Hospital preparedness for mass casualties
- Hospital preparedness in the face of bioterrorism: A survey of Premier owners, 11-02-01
- Infection control practicioners' perceptions and educational needs regarding bioterrorism: Results from a national needs assessment survey
- Inova Health System safety products sample inventory
- Interim guidelines for clinical evaluation of persons with possible anthrax
- Medical-Surgical supply formulary by disaster scenario
- MMWR CDC: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, October 19, 2001/ 50(41);889-893
- MMWR CDC: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, October 19, 2001/ 50(41);893-897
- National pandemic influenza strategy
- Nerve gas, including organic phosphorus and carbamate pesticides
- NIOSH guidance for protecting building environments from airborne chemical, biological, or radiological attack
- October 17 ACIP smallpox recommendations
- Premier emergency contracted supplier file
- Public health planning and response to bioterrorism and public health emergencies
- Public health response to biological and chemical terrorism
- Sample Major Communicable Disease Plan
- Smallpox and bioterrorism
- Smallpox and chickenpox flowchart
- Smallpox and chickenpox photos
- Standardized equipment list for 2001 for interagency response operations in combatting weapons of mass destruction terrorism
- Strategies for creating and sustaining community-wide emergency preparedness systems
- Updated recommendations for handling suspicious packages or envelopes
- US Postal Service guidelines for handling mail
- Veterans' Administration Rapid Contingency Plan