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OSHA's experience and expertise enable the agency
to offer important technical assistance involving worker safety and health
to other federal agencies under the
National Response Plan and the
National Response Team (40 CFR 300).
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Secretary's
Order 01-2006 - Establishment of the Emergency Management Center (EMC)
and the Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (CEMP). OSHA
Federal Register Notice 70:4027-4030, (2006, January 24). Addresses the
continuity of Departmental missions under all operating conditions and
the Department of Labor's (DOL's) roles and responsibilities in the
National, homeland, and economic security arenas.
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Welcome to the National Incident Management System (NIMS) Integration
Center.
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA). Provides "strategic
direction for and oversight of the National Incident Management
System… supporting both routine maintenance and the continuous
refinement of the system and its components over the long term."
DHS has issued a Notice of Change to the NRP and a Quick Reference Guide
that is available for
download.
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National Response Plan. US Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), (2006, May 25). Available as a 4 MB
PDF, 426 pages.
Establishes a comprehensive all-hazards approach to enhance the ability
of the US to manage domestic incidents. The plan incorporates best practices and procedures from incident management disciplines—homeland
security, emergency management, law enforcement, firefighting, public works, public health, responder and recovery worker health and safety,
emergency medical services, and the private sector—and integrates them into a unified structure.
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Worker Safety and Health Support Annex.
Also available as a 829 KB PDF, 6 pages.
Provides guidelines for implementing worker safety and health functions
during potential or actual Incidents of National Significance. OSHA is
given responsibility as the Coordinating Agency and is responsible for
assuring that threats to responder safety and health are anticipated,
recognized, and controlled consistently so that responders are properly
protected during incident management operations.
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NIMS
Integration Center Urges Emergency Management Personnel to Review
Changes to National Response Team. Reports changes made to the
National Response Plan by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
which updated the NRP as required to incorporate procedural changes
based on lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina, Wilma and Rita in 2005.
- National
Emergency Management Plan (NEMP). OSHA Directive HSO 01-00-001
(2003, December 18). Clarifies procedures and policy for OSHA's
National Office and Regional offices during responses to nationally
significant incidents.
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Inside the Green Line - OSHA Responds to Disaster. OSHA Publication 3189, (2003).
Also available as a 4 MB
PDF,
39 pages. A green line, painted around the perimeter of the World
Trade Center site, defined the recovery area. Within and around
this boundary, OSHA worked for 10 months with its partners in safety
and health to protect the well-being of workers on the site. Within
that space, no workers lost their lives in the recovery effort that
followed the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
- Homeland
Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-5
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Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-7
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Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-8
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National
Contingency Plan Overview. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (1994,
September 15). Establishes
the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan
(NCP) as the framework for coordination among federal, state, and local
responders and responsible parties for discharges of oil and chemicals
into the environment. OSHA is a member of the Nation Response Team and
Regional Response Teams, as well as participates in the Response, Preparedness,
and Training Subcommittees. The NCP established three organizational levels:
- The Nation Response Team (NRT),
- Regional Response Teams (RRTs) and
- On-Scene
Coordinators (OSCs).
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National Response Team. Consists of 16 federal agencies
with interests and expertise in various aspects of emergency response
to pollution incidents. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) serves
as chair and the US Coast Guard serves as vice-chair of the NRT. The NRT
is primarily a national planning, policy and coordinating body and does
not respond directly to incidents. The NRT provides policy guidance
before an incident and assistance as requested by an On-Scene Coordinator
via a Regional Response Team (RRT) during an incident. NRT assistance
usually takes the form of technical advice, access to additional resources/equipment
or coordination with other RRTs.
- NRT-RRT Fact Sheet.
NRT Preparedness Committee, (1998, August), 365 KB
PDF,
11 pages. Provides a framework for
coordination among federal, state, and local responders and
responsible parties to respond effectively to major discharges and
releases, and includes four levels of contingency planning (federal,
regional, area and local, and site-specific industry) that guide
response efforts.
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