Review of emergency response to chemical spills and other chemical or hazardous materials exposures from the viewpoint of workers' health and safety.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This paper focuses on health and safety emergencies associated with chemical spills and other incidents that may expose workers to hazardous materials. Equally important topics which are not addressed include non-chemical accidents, first aid, work place violence, non-chemical files and natural disasters. The goal of this overview is to identify: the main activities associated with hazardous materials (HAZMAT) emergency response; the people most often responsible for carrying out these activities; requirements for HAZMAT emergency response training; opportunities for new HAZMAT emergency response training; resources to aid in actual emergencies and for use in the planning stage, to avoid or mitigate the effects of future emergencies. Also included are suggestions made by HAZMAT and training experts on roles NIOSH might play in improving workers' ability to respond to emergencies.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Dust Hazardous Substances Lung Occupational Health Particulate Matter Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Surface-Active Agents

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• Keywords:
  Firefighters Hazardous-materials Health-care-workers Police-officers Training
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Purchase Order
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-26
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000088
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1997 Dec; :1-26
• Contact Point Address:
  Ruth Ruttenberg and Associates, Inc., 5107 Benton Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Performing Organization:
  Ruth Ruttenberg and Associates, Inc., 5107 Benton Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:959cfb55be868da9a56085b20bc8dcea2c892dea5c54dc3f72b2ead35780b83c35de436c5cc3cbe4a100987594d1f9cef6479c12b530eaeaa536a99731cc58f7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180998/cdc_180998_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 912.07 KB ]