ASSE-AIHA Alliance Presentation Annual OSHA Update: Technical Support and Emergency Management
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ASSE-AIHA Alliance Presentation
Annual OSHA Update:Technical Support and Emergency
Management
Thomas Galassi, MPH, CIHDirector
Directorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management
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Directorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management (DTSEM)
Mission
– To provide safety and health expertise to OSHA’s National Office and field organizations
– To fulfill OSHA’s role as designated under the National Response Framework
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Salt Lake Technical
Center
National Office
Wash, D.C.
Cincinnati Technical
Center
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DTSEM Offices and Centers
• Occupational Health Nursing • Occupational Medicine• Science and Technology Assessment• Technical Programs and Coordination Activities• Emergency Management
• Technical Data Center• Salt Lake Technical Center• Cincinnati Technical Center
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Directorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management services
• Integrated Solutions • Complex and Emerging Technical Issues• Resource Capabilities Including:
– Safety / Industrial Hygiene professionals– Engineers– Librarians– Health Scientist – Occupational Nurses– Occupational Physicians– Analytical Chemists
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Health Response TeamOSHA's Health Response Team (HRT) can help assess
the source and extent of exposure.
• Chemical hazards • Biological hazards • Physical energy • Ergonomics
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Health Response TeamSelect Activities
• Silver reclamation from photo and x-ray film
• Mold contamination in a document storage unit
• Boiler explosion at a refinery
• Nanotechnology
• Ionizing Radiation in a biotechnology facility
• Ergonomics/Vibration evaluation
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Health Response TeamSelect Activities
• Hydrogen Sulfide fatality investigation – Environmental and forensic testing
• Referred to OSHA occupational physicians for association of exposure and outcome
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Hydrogen Sulfide Exposure:What Happened?
• A rendering plant employee was tightening a gasket close to a machine that was known to produce hydrogen sulfide– Worker collapsed in cardiac arrest– Supervisor attempted assistance – collapsed and
recovered– 5 responding EMTs also affected
• Paramedics noted a “strong rotten egg odor”
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Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Poisoning
• No post-mortem information was available
• Causality based on history of event & multiple medical records
• Testing for thiosulfate in blood and urine would have been helpful
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Arsine Exposure: What Happened?
• Water treatment facility re-engineering electro-coagulation (ECU) process to improve arsenic extraction
• Four employees standing over vat were admitted to local hospitals for bloody urine (hematuria)
• Two required dialysis treatments• Safety & health effects were not
considered in re-engineering process• Causal relationship confirmed
between arsine exposure and health effects
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Arsine Poisoning
• Most cases occur when arsine is produced unintentionally
• Active metal + strong acid = fresh hydrogen• Newly formed hydrogen reacts with arsenic
compounds to form Arsine gas
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IH Chemistry
Our AIHA (ISO17025) accredited laboratory analyzes over 400 chemicals. Over 16,000 laboratory samples analyzed per year.
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Analytical Investigative Services
Mass Spec Analysis - unknowns
Combustible Dust testing
Sampling and Analytical Methods Development Material Failure Testing
and Investigations
Blood Carboxyhemoglobin to Environmental Carbon
Monoxide Concentration Back Calculations
Soil Testing
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Engineering and Program Support
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Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTL) Program
• NRTLs test and approve products to assure they are safe to use in U.S. workplaces and are recognized by OSHA’s NRTL Program.
• 2008 American Council of Independent Laboratories (ACIL) Alliance increased awareness of OSHA's NRTL-approval requirements.
• Three alliance products of interest. – Registered Certification Marks of NRTLs – pocket
card– "Identifying Counterfeit Items – Quick Tips" – "The Threat of Counterfeit Product Approval Marks
Warrants Aggressive Detection and Enforcement Action"
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Emergency Management
• Coordination with Emergency Management Community
• Defined roles for FEMA and OSHA in emergency response situations
• National Exercises
OSHA’s role is to ensure that worker safety and health issues are not overlooked or inadequately addressed
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National Response Framework:Worker Safety and Health Support Annex (WSHSA)
• OSHA is the Coordinating Federal Agency for Worker Safety and Health
• Theatre-wide mechanism for Federal, State, and local entities to request worker safety and health technical assistance
Emergency Preparedness and Response
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Significant Outreach Issues
• American Recovery and
Reinvention Act (ARRA)
• 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
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ARRA website directs users to OSHA resources
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“In Focus” section:
• Pandemic Influenza page
• Resources (e.g., Quick Cards, Fact Sheets) are available in HTML or PDF formats as well as English or Spanish versions
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Pan Flu Quick Cards and Fact Sheets
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Worker and Employer guidance for 2009 H1N1 published in November
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Safety and Health Information Bulletins, Best Practices and other products on:
• Skid Steer Loaders• Cable Trays• Stand-up Forklifts• Special Purpose Particle Accelerators• Mechanical Power Presses• Nationally Recognized Testing Labs• EMS Responders• Nail Guns
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OSHA E-Products WEB-based Resources
• Safety and Health Information on over 170 selected topics
– New Electric Power eTool• Hazard Assessment and Job Briefing,• Energized vs. De-energized work,• Grounding,• Overhead Line work, and more….
• Exploring new technologies – forums, blogs, wiki-pages
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“…agencies should harness new technologies
to put information about
their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public.”
President Obama January 21, 2009
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Open Government Directive December 8, 2009
• Open Government Directive (OGD)
• Directs Agencies to be more:
• Transparent in our work
• Participatory in seeking the ideas and expertise of citizens
• Collaborative in how we use new technology and processes for developing government policies
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Change How Government Works
Command & Control Organization
No expectation of response
Formal, information based information
Limited communications channels
Distributed Organization
Real time or near real time response
Casual, multimedia-based information
Multiple communications channels
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Open Government: Social Media as a Tool
Status:
• Identifying which tools support our needs (and work) and which tools do not
• Learning how to use the tools
• Exploring how we balance resource demands associated with these tools against the benefit of interacting with the public
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OSHA Datasets on Data.gov
• OSHA Data Initiative - Establishment Specific Injury and Illness Rates (Raw Data)
• Weekly Fatality Reports (Tool)
• OSHA Exposure Sampling Results – Under development (Tool and Raw Data)
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Public Engagement
• OSHA Listens – March 4
• National Action Summit for Latino Worker Safety and Health – April 14 – 15 in Houston
• Open Government Planning– Idea Scale
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Questions??
Thomas Galassi, DirectorDirectorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management (DTSEM)
(202)693.2300