Disaster Site Worker Safety Course Overview

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.

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

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 15-Hour Disaster Site Worker Card

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

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

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) Answers to activity can include any of the considerations discussed under “Other Site Considerations” during the January pilot.

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

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.

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.

Four types of Disasters 1 Natural 2 Technological 3 Terrorism 4 Other Disasters As an alternative to the next 3 slides, the instructor may ask the class to suggest examples for each category. The instructor can then “fill-in” with any examples that are not suggested.

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

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

Terrorism Terrorism Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Energetic/Explosive Cyber Attacks

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

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) Consequence Management Crisis Management

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

Transition Response Personnel 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

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

Responder Categories General Site Workers 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

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.

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

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.

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”

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”

RECOGNITION & ASSESSMENT Dashboard HAZARD RECOGNITION & ASSESSMENT