A fire drill was carried out in the office area of the Pharmacy Service, which affected the rest of the adjoining areas and warehouses.
The management of Son Llàtzer University Hospital today carried out a fire drill in the Pharmacy Service on the ground floor of the building. The exercise simulated a fire in the office area, which quickly evolved, affected other areas and threatened to set fire to warehouses of both drugs and flammable products nearby.
This drill is part of the actions that the Management, through its Self-Protection Committee, carries out to implement the Self-Protection Plan, to be prepared for any type of emergency such as fire, bomb threats, biological contamination, gas leakage, chemical product spillage, flooding or serious accident with personal injury. To this end, several training sessions were given beforehand to the heads of the Emergency Group and online emergency training was also made available to all professionals, which is permanently open.
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Fire drill in the Pharmacy Service of the Hospital Universitario Son Llàtzer
Following the alarm and the resulting internal communications, the emergency chief went to the Control Centre to take command of the emergency. The head of intervention went to the affected area to direct the actions and simultaneously the rest of the teams of the Emergency Group were mobilised to support both the intervention and control operations and the preparation of the evacuation or confinement for safety of the affected area and the surrounding areas.
The area was quickly evacuated for safety, while the first and second intervention teams (fire extinguishers and hoses) tried to contain the fire.
the fire. This was finally achieved by the firefighters and the fire was considered to have been extinguished.
This is how the exercise ended, which lasted a total of 30 minutes, 7 of them for the evacuation personnel to check that everything was evacuated and that the doors and windows were closed.
The drill was coordinated with the Palma Fire Department. This body had previously made several technical visits to the Hospital and had drawn up an operational intervention plan, with the aim of facilitating their task if necessary and reducing times, which was also rehearsed in the exercise.
The simulation consisted of three phases: preparation, execution and evaluation (critical judgement). For this purpose, a multidisciplinary team of referees was formed, made up of technical staff from the Health Service and the Hospital’s occupational risk prevention delegates. The team’s function was to observe how the simulation was carried out and to determine which negative factors were observed, in order to correct them later. In fact, after the simulation, a debriefing was carried out and a report will be issued with the analysis and proposals for improvement.