• Standardised triage procedures must be established among national/local multidisciplinary medical experts, including emergency medicine specialists • Standardised triage procedures should be used consistently at all levels of the medical system, according to centralized guidance • Staff at all levels should be trained in these methods • Triage procedures must be developed for a wide variety of threats (e.g. deliberate release, humanrelated events such as food poisoning, and natural outbreaks such as influenza) •