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Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance

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  • Personal Author:
    Funk R
  • Description:
    Objective: The Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance (ERHMS) system is intended to keep responders, volunteers, and contractors safe during all phases of emergency response (pre-, during, and post-deployment). ERHMS was designed to help determine the effectiveness of protective measures utilized during a response, It can be used to develop and target appropriate workplace interventions. ERHMS builds on lessons learned from the World Trade Center attacks, Hurricane Katrina, and Deepwater Horizon. Data collected pre-, during-, and post-deployment will help identify those responders who would benefit from medical referral and long-term surveillance. Methods: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) developed the Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance (ERHMS) system collaboratively with a National Response Team workgroup of federal, state, and local government agencies and responder groups. Results: NIOSH has been engaged in implementation and field-testing of the ERHMS system during both real-world and simulated events. This includes responses such as the Ebola response, the Deepwater Horizon response in the Gulf, as well as a multi-agency federal exercise. The implementation phase of ERHMS seeks to determine how individual response organizations can optimally put the ERHMS system into practice themselves, as well as how an incident command structure (ICS) during an emergency response can best utilize ERHMS. Other implementation activities include classroom training, online training, and ERHMS Info Manager software. This database could streamline and standardize the use and sharing of ERHMS data among various responder groups. Conclusions: ERHMS creates a new paradigm that protects responders pre-, during, and post-deployment. All responder agencies should implement the ERHMS system to better protect their responders. Incident commanders should request that an ERHMS unit be included in the Incident Command Structure to perform these important functions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • Publisher:
    American Industrial Hygiene Association
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Genre:
    Abstract or Summary
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Division:
    EPRO - Emergency Preparedness and Response Office
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    64-65
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20066034
  • Citation:
    AIHce 2016: American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition Pathways to Progress, May 21-26, 2016, Baltimore, Maryland. Falls Church, VA: American Industrial Hygiene Association, 2016 May; :64-65
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2016
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:f8a34054c20c591a2c8582cfcaa939245b0483116055d00d4b1cb3b68612919592b3bbb7113e973a645bd5cacd3f6188200df20c2e06c82c292d61390fc5e2b3
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