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The following websites offer additional help with emergency preparedness and response:
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- First Responders. Brings together information and resources to prepare for and respond to a
terrorist attack, natural disaster or other large-scale emergency.
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Best Practices and Case Studies. Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Contains a collection of illustrated stories, ideas, activities,
and projects that show how others have worked to reduce or prevent
damage from disasters in its best practices portfolio and in-depth,
analytical information about innovative projects throughout the
United States that deal with all types of hazards in its case
studies.
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Welcome to the National Incident Management System Integration Center.
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."
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DisasterHelp.gov.
Focuses on
providing information and services relating to the four pillars
of all-hazards disaster management: preparedness, response,
recovery, and mitigation.
- Ready.gov.
Assists Americans to learn about and to prepare for potential
terrorist attacks (Biological, Chemical, Explosions, Nuclear
Blast, Radiation).
OSHA
White House
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Homeland Security. Provides latest information on security
threats, recent legislation, and an interactive forum where key
administration officials respond to citizen's questions.
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
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Anthrax - Frequently Asked Questions. Provides a series of FAQs on anthrax.
- Emergency Preparedness and Response:
Agents, Diseases and Other Threats. Serves as a comprehensive source of
CDC information about bioterrorism and related issues. Includes links to
Bioterrorism, Chemical Emergencies, Radiation Emergencies, Mass Casualties,
Natural Disasters & Severe Weather, and Recent Outbreaks & Incidents.
- Emergency Response Cards for Chemical Agents.
Includes Abrin, Cyanogen Chloride, Lewisite, Mustard Gas, Potassium Cyanide,
Ricin, Sarin, Sodium Cyanide, as well as others. For a complete list, see the
Chemicals Agents
page.
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Interim Recommendations for Protecting Workers from Exposure to Bacillus anthracis in Work Sites Where Mail Is Handled or Processed.
Health Advisory, (2001, October 31). Also available as a 156 KB
PDF, 3 pages.
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Interim Recommendations for the Selection and Use of Protective Clothing and
Respirators Against Biological Agents. (2001, October 25). Provides CDC
recommendations for protective clothing and respirators. Protective clothing,
including gloves and booties, also may be required for the response to a
suspected act of biological terrorism. Protective clothing may be needed to
prevent skin exposures and/or contamination of other clothing. The type of
protective clothing needed will depend upon the type of agent, concentration,
and route of exposure.
- Updated Information About How to Recognize and Handle a Suspicious Package or Envelope.
(2001, October 31). Also available as a 96 KB PDF,
2 pages. Provides instructions
to prevent exposures and subsequent infection from agents transported in
suspicious mail. All
persons should
learn how to recognize a suspicious package or envelope and
take appropriate steps to protect
themselves and others.
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How to Handle Anthrax and Other Biological Agent Threats. (2001, October 12).
Recommends procedures for handling such incidents.
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training. Serves as centralized distribution point through which members
of the worker education and training community can access technical
documents and workshop reports, safety and health update information,
and curricula produced by the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences (NIEHS) Worker Education and Training Program (WETP) awardees.
US Postal Service (USPS)
Other
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Emergency Response. American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). Links to educational resources, emergency-related
meetings, courses and conferences, journal articles, products and experts.
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Emergency Preparedness and Response Task Force. Links to AIHA
recommendations for protecting workers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
and Rita, other hurricane information, emergency response documents including
AIHA's position on roles and responsibilities of AIHA hygienists in emergency
preparedness and response, an IH deployment checklist, a list of references to
be saved on a flash drive, asafety officer checklist, and a safety worksheet.
These and other resources were prepared by the AIHA Emergency Preparedness
Task Force.
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Emergency Response Planning Committee. Develops Emergency Response
Planning Guidelines (ERPGs) for
responding to potential releases of airborne substances for use in community
emergency planning. These are brief summaries and estimates of
tolerable-effect thresholds, not intended as exposure recommendations, to
assist in the planning for accidental, episodic chemical releases.
- InterAgency Board.
Establishes and coordinates local, state, and federal standardization,
interoperability, compatibility, and responder health and safety to prepare
for, train and respond to, mitigate, and recover from any incident by
identifying requirements for an all-hazards incident response with a special
emphasis on Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or Explosive (CBRNE)
issues.
- Responder Knowledge Base. Provides Emergency
Responders, purchasers, and planners with a trusted, integrated, on-line
source of information on products, standards, certifications, grants, and
other equipment-related information. The Responder Knowledge Base (RKB) is a web-based information
service for the
emergency responder community funded by the Department of
Homeland Security
and hosted by the National Memorial Institute for the
Prevention of
Terrorism (MIPT).
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