My university recently was hit with a four day power outage due to severe storms.  Our science building is recently new and has a back up generator however none of the main lab instruments or equipment were backed up to it. Hoods, lights and ventilation were.  In the end we are looking at a huge insurance claim and are now trying to prepare  an action plan for each of our labs in the event we go through something like this again.  I am the CHO for the department and was asked to put this together.  Does anyone know what OSHA standard, if any, I should be looking at for this?  They want to incorporate a "what to do" list for example if none of the scientists were around someone from maintenance could follow it to turn off sensitive equipment in our absence.  My thought on that is would we need to train and document  anyone who might have to respond and use our action list?   



Kathleen