Responsible Reactions For A Chemical Emergency Center

Educational establishments must have in place appropriate measures to ensure that the risks to the health and safety of pupils/students from exposure to hazardous substances are minimised.

Introduction. On 06 January 2005, a cargo train carrying a massive amount of chlorine spilled in Graniteville, South Carolina creating panic and indeed chaos to both citizens and emergency managers on how to properly respond to the hazardous materials released from the train wreckage. The people of the small rural town of Graniteville located just outside of Aiken, South Carolina, where caught in their sleep when Freight train 192 traveling approximately 47 mph struck other consignments spilling a dangerous amount of chlorine gas into the atmosphere. As a result of this disaster, 5,400 individuals were evacuated from their homes whiling causing nine death. The magnitude of such disaster was one that would change any town or city forever.

Risk assessments are vital to be included within a laboratory setting as it involves evaluating the potential risks which may be involved when completing an experiment or activity. The employer must be aware that risks which someone is exposed to at work must be reduced by them responsibly implementing precautions in order to make the setting safer. They need to analyse: what could possible go wrong? How likely is it? And what would be the consequences? These questions are regularly used when creating a risk assessment so that every risk sheet has a similar outline and meets the criteria of an effective risk assessment. It covers the general procedures, the working environment and the handling, storage and transportation of various substances.

• Investigate reasons for hazard and what preventative measures may need to be taken in thefuture

I will then follow with he Physics Department, the amount of chemicals on this department maybe small, but the hazardous communications related to it, is related to the tools and

In order to mitigate exposure to harmful substances, first responders are trained to be familiar with hazardous substance identification systems. These two systems are the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) 704 system, and the Department of Transportation (DOT) HAZMAT identification system (Weekly reading; Unit 2: Hazardous Materials Identification Systems). Deadly threats exist in the aftermath of any terrorist attacks, so first responders should be aware of these systems, and the dangers they will face.

In order to mitigate such risk, it is critical for emergency services personnel to be trained at all levels. Ensuring the implementation of hazardous materials training (HAZMAT), resourcing the proper detection devices, and most of all, training emergency personnel to both understand and identify all known indicators. Terrorist incidents involving chemical agents are so dangerous in the fact

An assessment of the risks to health arising from the use of hazardous substances at work and deciding what precautions are needed,

There are over one million reports of probable poisonings in the U.S. that involve children below the age of six each year. Although numerous studies have shown the importance of poison centers and their invaluable role in reducing healthcare costs, they still remain an underutilized service. Much of its underuse is prevalent in low-income African-American and Latino parents, as well as those with limited English proficiency.1

Hazardous materials can be important in everyday life when properly handled. However, when improperly handled, they can result in injury, death, and destruction as well as have lingering effects that may last for years to come. To address the risk of an uncontrolled hazardous materials release, there must be a coordinated effort to identify, locate, and quantify the hazardous materials in a particular location (Drexel University Safety & Health, 2001). Typically, industry and government agree that a hazardous materials incident is one where

Events which interfere with the normal operations of Hennepin Technical College (HTC) are unavoidable. The purpose of this document is to explain the actions, roles, and responsibilities that are to be taken by individuals and departments in the event of a spill or release of a hazardous chemical or waste. (Homeland Security, 2011)

Thus, the involvement of the private sector in the emergency management is essential for the fruitful and adequate response to the hazardous gas emission. The united efforts of the industry and emergency services can help to minimize casualties and increase the effectiveness of their response to the

Intro –What is a hazard? - Human and Physical Factors – How to manage with events

As part of Dr. Labelle’s Lab both team members had to first undergo the basic lab safety trainings before being able to get access to the lab. Some of these trainings included machine shop safety training, biohazardous waste training, fire safety training, waste management training and even the lab specific training. As part of these training we ensured that we were disposing the chemicals properly and into the right containers to ensure proper disposal of the chemicals based on their properties. Dr. Labelle’s lab also has a standardized operational procedure used by all the members of the lab to ensure that all members are handling the chemicals properly. We are also required to know the location of the different safety equipment such as the

The HSE demanded a statistical report and analysis of the laboratory data, which could be used as evidence of particular sectors of chemical industry causing potential health hazards for their employees. For the purpose of this analysis a sample of people coming from four different sectors of chemical industry had their blood tested for LDH-1 and LDH-5 levels (Intercellular enzyme that determines cell damage in various organs). The degree of organ damage, in this case liver damage, can be simply assessed by looking at the values of the ratio of those two enzymes: the higher the ratio of LDH-1 and LDH-5 is, the worse the degree of liver damage is (nurseslearning.com). This is how we can compare worker’s health state and