Evacuation and Containment in an Emergency
out, evacuation is one of the most important elements of any safety plan in a facility where threat levels are high and loss of life can occur unless individuals are effectively removed from a threat should one break out. Likewise, containment is critical, as Shuaib et al. (2014) showed when an Ebola outbreak occurred in Nigeria in 2014: containment measures were quickly put in place, which helped prevent the virus from taking the lives of hundreds and even thousands of individuals as happened in other West African countries that year. Evacuation saves lives, and so does containment. Once these two steps… Continue Reading...
