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 15-Hour Disaster Site Worker Card

5. 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

6. 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

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

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 Disasters1
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.

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)
Consequence Management
Crisis Management

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

18. 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

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 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

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. RECOGNITION & ASSESSMENT
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HAZARD
RECOGNITION & ASSESSMENT