Guidance for the safe entry, safe clean up procedures, appropriate PPE for all recovery workers, and a hazard assessment for the most critical items or operations that can cause acute or chronic health effects or disease.
Recovery work in disaster areas such as those hit by Hurricane Katrina can pose a lot of problems. The workers here have to be aware of various possible dangers that range from live wires o tripping over the debris to stray animals biting them. Carefully evaluating the possible dangers can help us control and prevent them
Guidance for the safe entry
My first step would be to evaluate the work site in order to identify whether any of the following hazards are present: electrocution, material that we may fall over or planks or fallen glass, for instance, that are dislodged; I would check the noise rate; whether there are cut / laceration hazards (such as fallen glass); the temperature level (any blazing fires); and any drug seepage or hazardous or infectious material that is lying loose in the environment.
To make up my list, I would consider the range of contaminants that would normally be present in the hospital environment and those that may have been released by the Hurricane.
Before entering, I would brief the team about our procedures and obtain useful information about the regular location of equipment and the material that they regularly use
Hazard assessment for the most critical items or operations that can cause acute or chronic health effects or disease
Given that this is a hospital environment, chemical containments may readily be present, so we will screen for them by using direct reading...
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