Support Zone Stations
Support Zone stations and related activities include the following:
The Command Post
- Supervision of all field operations and field teams
- Maintaining communications, including emergency lines of communication
- Recordkeeping documents, including:
- accident reports
- chain-of-custody records
- daily logbooks
- manifest directories and orders
- medical records
- personnel training records
- site inventories
- site safety map
- up-to-date site safety plans
- Access to up-to-date safety and health manuals and other reference materials
- Interface with the public: government agencies, local politicians, medical personnel, the media, and other interested parties
- Monitoring of work schedules and weather changes, maintaining site security
- Sanitary facilities
The Medical Station
- First-aid administration
- Medical emergency response, medical monitoring activities, sanitary facilities
- Equipment and supply centers
- Supply, maintenance, and repair of communications, respiratory, and sampling equipment
- Maintenance and repair of vehicles
- Replacement of expendable supplies
- Storage of monitoring equipment and supplies (storage may be here or in an onsite field laboratory)
Administration Station
- Sample shipments
- Interface with home office
- Maintenance of emergency telephone numbers, evacuation route maps, and vehicle keys
- Coordination with transporters, disposal sites, and appropriate federal, state, and local regulatory agencies
The Field Laboratory
- Coordination and processing of environmental and hazardous waste samples (Copies of the sampling plans and procedures should be available for quick reference in the laboratory).
- Packaging of materials for analysis following the decontamination of the outsides of the sample containers which should be done in the CRZ. (This packaging can also be done in a designated location in the CRZ. Shipping papers and chain-of-custody files should be kept in the Command Post.)
- Maintenance and storage of laboratory notebooks should be in designated locations in the laboratory while in use, and in the Command Post when not in use.
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6-10. Which support zone station is responsible for maintenance of emergency telephone numbers, evacuation route maps, and vehicle keys?
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