Disaster Site Worker Safety

1. Disaster Site Worker Safety Course Overview

2. Introduction This course: • Is designed to provide disaster site workers with knowledge, information, and skills to work safely on disaster sites. • Encourages participants to recognize and report hazards of assigned job tasks to ensure health and safety for themselves and others.

3. Expectations of the Training • Our expectations • Ask questions • Share information • Listen • Your expectations

4. What do you get out of this? • Knowledge and understanding about the hazards and life safety issues you may encounter at a disaster event • Skill in recognizing hazards and evaluating risk • Certificate indicating your attendance • Authorized OSHA Outreach Card

5. Who Are Disaster Site Workers? • Skilled Support Personnel (SSP) — emergency (rescue) and recovery • Examples: Heavy equipment operators; Utility workers • General Site Workers — clean-up • Examples: Laborers For the purposes of this training, Disaster Site Workers are:

6. Who Are Disaster Site Workers? • Uniformed first responders • FBI agents or other government investigators • Engineering personnel or other professional service workers For the purposes of this training, Disaster Site Workers are NOT:

7. Community Disaster Site • All disasters start (and finish) locally! • Considerations • Mutual aid • Local Emergency Planning Committee • Industrial responders • Volunteers • What do you think your needs would be on a disaster site? (Activity)

8. TORNADO • Joplin, MO • Sunday – May 22, 2011 • 5:34pm • EF5 Tornado • Winds > 200mph • 158 Fatalities • 1,150 Injuries • Damages total $2.8 billion Church Volunteers working in Joplin, MO

9. Flooding • Coastal, TX • Hurricane Harvey • August 25th, 2017 • Category 4 • 130mph winds • 40 inches of rain • 69 Fatalities (direct) • 39 Fatalities (indirect) • $125 billion in damages Church Volunteers working in flooded homes in coastal areas of Texas.

10. Hurricane • Katy, TX • Hurricane Harvey • August 25th, 2017 • Category 4 • 130mph winds • 40 inches of rain • 69 Fatalities (direct) • 39 Fatalities (indirect) • $125 billion in damages Contractors Cleaning up after Hurricane Harvey passed through Katy, Texas.

11. Four types of Disasters

12. Natural Disasters • Avalanches • Coastal Erosion • Droughts • Earthquakes • Wildfires • Floods • Landslides • Severe Local Storms • Tsunamis • Volcanoes • Extreme Heat • Freezing • Hailstorms • Land Subsidence (cave-ins) • Storm Surges • Tornadoes • Hurricanes

13. Technological Disasters • Dam Failures • Fire Hazards • Energy Shortages and Utility Outages • Food and Water Supply Contamination • Hazardous Materials Releases • Radiation Hazards • Transportation Accidents

14. Terrorism • Terrorism • Chemical • Biological • Radiological • Nuclear • Energetic/Explosive • Cyber Attacks

15. Other Disaster Potential • Civil Disorder • Active Shooter • Workplace Violence • Crime Scenes • Pandemic (an epidemic that is geographically widespread)

16. Anatomy of a Disaster Event Skilled Support Personnel Emergency Response Personnel General Site Workers Transition Response Personnel Increasing Level of Involvement (relative) Cleanup Response Initial Response Increasing Time of Involvement (relative) ConsequenceManagement Crisis Management

17. Responder Categories Emergency Response Personnel Fire Police Hazmat EMS Search and Rescue National Guard US Coast Guard

18. Responder Categories Transition Response Personnel • Operating engineers • Heavy equipment maintenance workers • Truck loaders and drivers • Riggers • Torch cutters • Iron workers • Clean up response • Sheet metal workers • Asbestos and lead abatement workers • Decontamination workers • Carpenters • Laborers • Utility workers • Sanitation workers

19. Additional Transition Responders(personnel not part of this training) • Structural engineers • Coroner/Medical Examiner • Animal control veterinarians • Environmental technicians • Safety and health (OSHA and private sector) • Surveyors

20. Responder Categories Clean up response activities Workers involved may include those in the previous slide Usually more is “known” about actual site hazards in the cleanup phase than in the transition phase of a disaster event General Site Workers

21. Activity • You are doing your job on a disaster site. • List those activities you would consider to be safe. • List those activities you would consider unsafe.

22. Essential Knowledge • Hazard Recognition & Assessment. • Health Hazards. • Safety Hazards. • Decontamination Procedures. • Understand their function in the Incident Command System (ICS) / Unified Command (UC). • Traumatic Stress • CBRNE

23. Essential Skills • Recognize hazards or abnormal conditions. • Identify safe and appropriate use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). • Perform proper use, inspection, donning & doffing of respirator.

24. Employee Rights: Highlights for Disaster Sites • Request information on hazards, precautions, and procedures • Gain access to exposure and medical records • Observe monitoring/measuring of hazardous materials and obtain the results • Review injury and illness records • See also OSHA publication 3021 “OSHA: Employee Workplace Rights”

25. Employee Responsibilities: Highlights for Disaster Sites • Work cooperatively to reduce hazards • Follow safety and health rules and regulations • Wear or use prescribed PPE • Report hazardous conditions • Report job-related injury/illness & seek treatment promptly • See also OSHA Publication 3021 “OSHA: Employee Workplace Rights”

26. Dashboard HAZARD RECOGNITION & ASSESSMENT