The Legacy of the Flood of ’93. A Working Conference on the Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Issues, St. Louis, Missouri, April 11–13, 1994

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• Description:
  This report presented edited remarks from the conference on the flood of 1993 along with summary recommendations made after the event was completed. Major issues of concern which emerged during the conference were recovery from the economic and stress impacts of the flood, intermediate and long term flood recovery efforts, the unpredictability of the physical and organizational work environments of disaster response workers, communication difficulties, application forms used by disaster relief agencies, coordination of efforts if federal agencies are to respond in a timely fashion, evaluations of early intervention efforts, the Farm Partners in Iowa program, a comprehensive approach to farm family problems and appropriate solutions, establishing an infrastructure and disaster response network of state and county social services, efforts to move from the model of tertiary prevention and treatment to more proactive secondary and primary prevention efforts, and the various roles of disaster response personnel. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Disaster Planning Emergency Responders Health Personnel Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-workers Disaster-planning Emergency-care Floods Health-care-personnel Job-stress Psychological-factors Psychological-stress Worker-health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Iowa ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-81
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00235932
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-162408
• Citation:
  Great Lakes Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety, University of Illinois at Chicago 1994 Apr; :1-81
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Great Lakes Center for Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e8335f19a5388c8d25a7f6c0394ac107342e15cebf269c076b2408da34ed7d4d82428096ec826e021692c0f5b39435b9866cdfef4a6f42905393007f5091b25a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197801/cdc_197801_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.41 MB ]