Business Shelter-In-Place Video

Every year hazardous emergencies take their toll in dollars and human lives. While some losses are unavoidable, adding shelter-in-place to emergency plans can help businesses cope with a fast-moving toxic cloud when there isn’t time to evacuate.

No one can predict the exact conditions or who will be around – at the time of a hazardous chemical release. This training is to help facility managers, safety officers, and others who manage emergencies, understand how
sheltering works, identify areas in buildings for sheltering occupants, and develop shelter-in-place plans for short-term chemical vapor releases.

The training has been developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the United States Army's Soldier and Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM). It is currently available in VHS (DVD version in press.)

Hard copies of the Business Shelter-in-Place video are not currently available to the general public due to a shortage of these materials. The student workbook, which gives you the complete video text and key photos is available here.

A compressed QuickTime version of the video has been posted below for download. Due to compression, the viewable area has been reduced and the audio quality is not as high as in the original. The file is 898 MB in size, so you must have a fast internet connection and sufficient available hard disk space on your computer. To play the file, you must have Apple Quicktime installed on your computer.

Download compressed Business Shelter-in-Place video.

If you have any questions about the video, or are affiliated with a Federal, State, or local government agency, contact:

Robert Norville
Training Manager
Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program

(703) 605-1209

robert.norville@dhs.gov

 

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