Public registration
Instruction
Caution: Treatment or transport of seriously injured people should not be delayed for registration, monitoring or decontamination.
Steps:
- Establish a public registration area outside the inner cordoned area (safety perimeter) that is secured and protected from the weather if required
- If terrorism or criminal activity is suspected, ensure that people are searched for weapons before coming to the public registration area and emergency workers are protected from potentially armed suspects
- Instruct non-injured members of public who were within the inner cordoned area:
- Not to take any items that may be radioactive
- As a precaution to keep hands away from mouth and not to eat or drink until they wash their face and hands
- To go to a public registration area — where they can wait safely while being processed
- If contamination is not suspected, register them using a registration form and release them
- If the public may be contaminated (possible presence of radioactive smoke, liquid or dust) and:
- Arrangements for decontamination are in place:
- send them for field or full decontamination. Make sure this action does not interfere with necessary first aid actions
- Arrangements for decontamination are not in place:
- register them, using the registration form
- instruct them:
- Not to eat, drink, smoke or place hands near mouth until their hands and face are washed and potentially contaminated outer clothing is changed
- To shower and change clothes when possible, and to place clothes in plastic bag and save them
- To listen for and follow official instructions given via the media (TV or radio)
- Release members of the public
- Arrangements for decontamination are in place: