Utilizing Internet Data, Social Media, and Community Networks to Gather Data for Characterization of Recovery Worker Exposures

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• Personal Author:
  Bautista E ; Chaisson CF ; Chari, Ramya ; Chavez R ; Dederick E ; Diskin K ; Dwyer N ; Franklin C ; Osorio JC ; Sellers C ; Shih R ; Yeampierre E
• Description:
  Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, response and recovery for the working-class neighborhoods in New York City's industrial waterfront areas required massive efforts by many different types of recovery workers, including residents, business owners and their employees, paid contractors, and volunteers both from within the affected communities and from other areas. For many, working with little or no training and protective gear, contact (dermal, inhalation and oral) with the debris and muck was inevitable. No systematic monitoring was completed in real-time to understand what types and duration of activities took place or what personal protective equipment was used by the various types of recovery workers. The rise of social media, Internet sharing sites, and mobile digital technologies can retrieve information about recovery worker activities through photos, videos, text narratives and other media, many of which are publicly available. With a unique community-based approach, we have pioneered a systematic collection of these media to understand and characterize exposure-related elements such as behaviors, recovery site tasks, protective equipment, and media comprising the muck and debris. We will discuss a community-based risk assessment approach for gathering and evaluating photographic, digital, and narrative information in order to characterize recovery worker exposures following Hurricane Sandy. The process utilized both a comprehensive media review to collect publicly-available information and a community-led effort to gather private media collections. Successes and challenges in data collection and use and lessons learned will also be presented [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Community Health Services Cyclonic Storms Disaster Planning Emergencies Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety
• Keywords:
  Activity Patterns Author Keywords: Emergency Response Behavior Patterns Community Community Health Disaster Clean-up Disaster Sites Emergency Preparedness Floods Hurricanes Natural Disasters Personal Protective Equipment PPE Social Media

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• Publisher:
  International Society of Exposure Science
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  California ; New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  40
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053200
• Citation:
  24th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES 2014): Exposure Science Integration to Protect Ecological Systems, Human Well-Being, and Occupational Health, October 12-16, 2014, Cincinnati, Ohio. Ottawa, Canada: International Society of Exposure Science, 2014 Oct; :40
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20130930
• Source Full Name:
  24th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES 2014): Exposure Science Integration to Protect Ecological Systems, Human Well-Being, and Occupational Health, October 12-16, 2014, Cincinnati, Ohio
• End Date:
  20150929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f060b48c0c13cf8e3764a9cb2ee995977507f890cb0dab871fddb3dcf52205c2fef12fe709615e0af0ab2095527eaadbcda07555b6ba2e78cac3d07df16df0db
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/216007/cdc_216007_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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