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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 Framework and the
National Response Team (40 CFR 300).
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Protecting Worker Safety and Health Under the National Response
Framework. OSHA Quick Card 3356-09N-08, (2008), 44 KB
PDF*, 2 pages.
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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 Integration Center (NIC) Incident Management
Systems Integration Division.
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 Framework. US Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), (2008). Identifies the key response principles, as well as the roles and
structures that organize national response. It describes how
communities, States, the Federal Government and private-sector and
nongovernmental partners apply these principles for a coordinated,
effective national response. In addition, it describes special
circumstances where the Federal Government exercises a larger role,
including incidents where Federal interests are involved and
catastrophic incidents where a State would require significant support.
It lays the groundwork for first responders, decision-makers and
supporting entities to provide a unified national response.
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Worker Safety and Health Support Annex.
Also available as an 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 Plan. 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.
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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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Oil Spills. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), (2008,
March 24).
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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.
*These files are provided for downloading.
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