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Podcast: The Occupational Safety Leadership Podcast
Episode: Episode 288 - Hazardous Materials Response in Healthcare with Thomas Price
Description: This episode focuses on how hospitals and healthcare facilities respond when a patient arrives after exposure to hazardous materials. Guest Thomas Price walks through real-world procedures for handling these incidents — including decontamination, triage zones, and coordination between transport teams and hospital response staff.
Key Takeaways & Procedures:
-Gross decontamination at the spill site — Before the patient enters the hospital, initial decontamination is ideally done where exposure occurred to reduce contamination risk.
-Hot and cold zones in hospital intake — Hospitals designate “hot” (contaminated) and “cold” (safe/clean) zones to control spread and protect staff and other...