THE SITUATION: You are an Industrial Hygienist for a large NewOrleans Hospital who was evacuated to Baton Rouge after the Katrinadisaster. It is 6 weeks after the event and you have been given theresponsibility to supervise a team that will return to thehospital, evaluate the situation and participate in a plan tore-establish basic medical needs for the workers involved in therecovery effort. Your team is composed of the hospital’s currentSafety Supervisor (programs and training), the EnvironmentalManager (physical plant, wastes and regulatory issues), and twotechnicians (versed in IH and environmental sample collection andtesting). Your offices are on the second floor of the building,along with the surgical suites and clinical laboratory. In youroffices, there is a considerable amount of trash and debrisscattered about with ample evidence of the public’s intrusion tothe area after the event. There are muddy footprints and opencabinets, along with testing supplies and equipment strewn aboutyour team’s office area. The basement and much of the first floorwere flooded to a level of about 6 feet. The main administrativeoffices, emergency room operations, and cafeteria were on the firstfloor. THE BOSS NEEDS….: The Incident Commander (person in-chargeof recovery) for this operation is looking to you for guidance onthe safe entry, safe clean up procedures, appropriate PPE for allrecovery workers, and a hazard assessment for the most criticalitems or operations that can cause acute or chronic health effects,illness or disease. THE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED: 1. Whatrecommendations and guidance would you make to the IncidentCommander to address his concerns and needs? 2. What are the mainIndustrial Hygiene concerns for your team and the clean-up recoveryworkers? 3. How would you organize your team? 4. What tasks wouldyou assign to them? 5. What PPE would you require for your teammembers and the recovery workers…short term and then later in therecovery effort? 6. What testing equipment would you require foryour team members? 7. What information would you require from thedifferent members of your team? 8. How would you delegate certainduties to your team members? 9. Any other pertinent information youfeel is important and necessary.
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