Protecting Disaster Rescue and Recovery Workers

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• Personal Author:
  D’Alessandro, Maryann M. ; Delaney, Lisa J. ; Piacentino, John ; Reissman, Dori B.
• Description:
  This chapter describes worker protection strategies and health surveillance activities in terms of temporal phases of disaster and emergency management. Disaster safety management capacities and coordination plans must be developed before a disaster occurs to deal with the complexities of hazard assessment and control, worker education and training, worker illness and injury surveillance, and access to healthcare services. These activities are performed by diverse groups of occupational and environmental health professionals. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Engineering Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Risk Assessment Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Author Keywords: Walkthrough Surveys Control-technology Disaster Sites Disease-prevention Employee-health Engineering-controls Environmental-control Environmental-health Environmental-technology Health-hazards Health Hazard Evaluations Industrial-processes Injury-prevention National Institute For Occupational Safety And Health Occupational-diseases Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Public-health Risk-analysis Work-analysis Work-environment Work-performance Workplace-monitoring Workplace-studies Workplace Hazards Workplace Investigations

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• ISBN:
  9780190662677
• Publisher:
  Oxford University Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Georgia ; New Hampshire ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  WTCHP - World Trade Center Health Program ; NPPTL - National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory ; OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051542
• Citation:
  Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury, 7th edition. Levy BS, Wegman DH, Baron SL, Sokas RK, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 Dec; :633-651
• Editor(s):
  Levy BS; Wegman DH; Baron SL; Sokas RK
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury, 7th edition
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/211442/cdc_211442_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.61 MB ]