CPPE and decontamination equipment available | Yes, some delay in locating equipment | All equipment available and ready to hand |
Medical staff deployed for command, scene safety, communication, and assessment | Prompt and correct deployment of staff | Prompt and correct deployment of staff Too few staff initially |
Incident activation procedures and communication cascade | Good | Good, major incident control team arrived within 15 minutes |
Appropriate demarcation of the hospital into clean and contaminated zones | Accomplished in six minutes | Accomplished in six minutes, roles delegated Access through to the clean zone was blocked with equipment that would otherwise have been used had this not been an exercise |
Correct and timely donning of CPPE | Delays and practical difficulties in assembling CPPE | They were donned correctly, some difficulties in sizing, delays in assembling and donning |
Triage according to triage sieve | Slow as there was only one triage officer | When triaged, the sieve was used correctly, deficiency in staff numbers led to delays |
Recommended patient decontamination process | Employed correctly but inadequate | Employed correctly but inadequate |
Appropriate lifesaving first aid during decontamination | Delay in finding equipment | Used appropriately |
Attempts made to minimise contamination trails | Patients not involved in the exercise crossed the decontamination area to access outpatient department that would have been closed in a real event. A “contaminated” casualty was able to enter the department potentially causing contamination | There was no effective control of the contaminated zone |
Correct procedure for staff decontamination | Correct procedure used, but not for enough time | Correct procedure used, but not for enough time. |