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Related Safety and Health Topics
Training
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Anthrax: Training and Education. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Includes videos, slide sets & training materials, textbook
information, historical archives and links to other training.
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Protecting Your Health.
Video, 16 minutes, (2002, January 9). Includes basic information about anthrax, strategies
for protecting workers from anthrax exposures, & methods for detecting &
responding to a suspicious letter or package.
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Mail Center Security. US Postal Service (USPS), (2007). Contains FAQs,
posters, best practices, a mail center security handbook and other mailroom
safety resources.
Other Resources
- Plan
Ahead. Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). Links to
Ready.gov and
CitizenCorps.gov as well as FEMA resources:
- Are You Ready?
Provides a step-by-step approach to disaster preparedness by walking the
reader through how to get informed about local emergency plans, how to
identify hazards that affect their local area, and how to develop and maintain
an emergency communications plan and disaster supplies kit. There is a chapter
on Terrorism
which includes biological threats such as anthrax.
Hotlines and Helplines
For additional assistance about specific aspects of worker health and safety associated with potential anthrax exposure, contact the following hotlines or helplines.
To report suspicious letter or package:
For vaccination information:
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Notices to Readers Immunization Hotline.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report (MMWR) 46(35);826, (1997,
September 5). Provides vaccine information
through the
National Immunization Hotline (English): 1-800-232-2522
(in Spanish 800-232-2522).
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Contact AVIP Agency.
US Department of Defense. Provides
the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP) Information Line: (877) 438-8222 (877-GET-VAC).
For state and local response planning:
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Contact Us. US Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), Federal
Emergency Management Administration
(FEMA), Office of Grants & Training.
Provides grants to state and local
training programs for terrorist
preparedness. G&T Centralized Scheduling
and Information Desk (CSID) 800-368-6498,
8 am - 6 pm EST.
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Contact Us.
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). Provides the
Emergency Preparedness & Response Branch Hotline for State Health Officials: 770-488-7100 (24-hour line).
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National Disaster Medical System.
US Department of Health and Human
Services (DHHS). Provides a hotline: (301) 443-1167 or 800-USA-NDMS.
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The Laboratory Response Network Partners
in Preparedness. Maintains an
integrated network of state and local
public health, federal, military, and
international laboratories that can
respond to bioterrorism, chemical
terrorism and other public health
emergencies.
For general worker health and safety information:
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