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Public health report stresses worker protection as key component of homeland security

deral Emergency Management Agency and other response plans. Older, more general guidelines, according to the report, are "essentially useless" in the face of such a mass destruction as that at the Trade Center.

  • Firm guidelines for ending the search and rescue phase after 12-15 days are needed. The report says that there is virtually no likelihood of recovery of living victims after that time and that rescue workers cannot function safely after two weeks of 12-hour days. Continued protracted efforts then "begin to take a toll in both physical and mental terms," which leads to increased risk taking, injuries and illness.

  • Worker protection standards must be enforced.

  • With personnel at the scene of the World Trade Center numbering more than 5,000, command, control, communication and coordination were extremely difficult. These should be improved under a unified command.

    The report concludes with recommended elements of a training preparedness initiative by the NIEHS Worker Education and Training Program. For more information on the kinds of follow-up studies being conducted on rescue and other workers and on residents and workers nearby, see press release "HHS Awards" at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/oc/news/awards.htm


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    • Contact: Bill Grigg
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    301-402-3378
    NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
    23-Aug-2002


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