Rescue team

Similarly, the Site B contractor s SSAHP provided corporate policy and procedures for permit-required confined space entry but lacked the site-specific detail necessary to describe the application of the corporate policy to procedures at the site. For example, the SSAHP did not identify specific components of the thermal treatment unit that presented confined space hazards, nor did it describe the specific circumstances or procedures that would require employee entry into these areas. In addition, the plan stated that the contractor would maintain an onsite employee confined space rescue team, but did not identify the members of this team. The SSAHP for Site F also contained a generic confined space entry program but did not identify the specific location of confined space hazards present at the site. 

During the development of the SSHAP, items such as the specific names of the rescue team might not he known. Or, over time, the rescue team members may change. The specific members of these teams should be updated on a regular basis. This basis should be specified in the plan. As stated in the preceding section, the plan needs to be regularly reviewed and updated as necessary. 

Smoke obscuration is an essential parameter related to fire hazard, because it may cause visual impairment both of the occupants of a fire scenario and of the rescue team, creating a potential danger. 

In the area affected, medical care is rendered in maximum possible amount and in the shortest time, both by rescue teams and first-aid brigades, promoting favorable outcome of the accident. 

Training, exercises and practices are needed to improve the capabilities for the rescue teams to respond to critical situations and accidents. 

Federal Bureau of Investigation Hazardous Materials Response Unit (HMRU) Hostage Rescue Team (ninety-one agents)... 

When people see a container labeled ACID, they like to keep well away. After all, it is rather an uncomfortable thought that something that looks as innocent as water can burn its way through leather, iron, steel and other materials that normally offer us protection. Corrosive acids spilled on the roads have, been known to eat their way through car tires and the boots of rescue teams. 

Rescue You also need a rescue team, which should prepare for disentanglement procedures, patient packaging, and removal. A rope rescue sector may be needed. 

A 15-year-old girl took 38 g of metformin (135). Her pH was 7.29, bicarbonate 17 mmol/1, base excess -10 mmol/1, and blood glucose 9.2 mmol/1 after receiving glucose from the rescue team. Her condition worsened—the bicarbonate fell to 15 mmol/1, the pH to 7.2, and the blood glucose to 2.7 mmol/1 the lactate rose to 8.7 mmol/1. The lactate concentration subsequently peaked at 21 mmol/1. 

Three men were killed by the blast. Their bodies were saturated with highly contaminated water and particles of fuel had penetrated their skin. Rescue teams evacuated the casualties despite gamma dose rates up to 10 Gy h 1 within the reactor building. 

Rescue missions. Buildings razed by an earthquake may be sensed to locate signs of life. Event tracking in case of disasters can be used to guide rescue teams. 

On June 2, 1976, moments after a bomb exploded in his car and inflicted fatal injuries, dying Arizona investigative reporter Don Bolles whispered three words to the rescue team that pulled him from the wreckage "Mafia. . . Emprise. .. Adamson."... 

The described approach has been already applied when developing a coastal mobile hardware complex [11]. Software and hardware support of this complex comprises a database on standard documents in the radiation protection area reference databases on radiation-hazardous facihties, persotmel and equipment of emergency-rescue teams of Rosatom, digital map bank, computer systems for on-hne forecast and measurement of the radiation situation parameters, different data-exchange communication channels, etc. 

Nakajima, T., S. Sato, H. Morita, and N. Yanagisawa. 1997. Sarin poisoning of a rescue team in the Matsumoto sarin incident in Japan. Occup. Environ. Med. 54 697-701. 

Rescue and safety workers have also been studied. Nishiwaki et al. (2001) studied 27 male rescue team staff and 30 police officers, 3-45 months after the event. The study subjects showed decreased performance on the digit span test however, no effects on stabilometry and vibration perception threshold were found. Li et al. (2004) followed 27 male firefighters and 25 male police officers three years after the attack for genotoxic effects. They found an elevated frequency of sister chromatid exchanges in lymphocytes of the victims which were related to the percentage of ChE inhibition observed just after the attack. 

Nishiwaki, Y., Maekawa, K., Ogawa, Y., Asukai, N., Minami, M., Omae, K., Sarin Health Effects Study Group (2001). Effects of sarin on the nervous system in rescue team staff members and police officers 3 years after the Tokyo subway sarin attack. Environ. Health Perspect. 109(11) 1169-73. 

Due to the lack of gas masks and other protective clothes and gear, the total number of victims poisoned with sarin in Matsumoto who needed professional help (600) included not only residents, but also members of the rescue team and health care professionals. Seven out of 58 residents admitted to the hospitals died. A physician from the duty ambulance vehicle and seven rescuers out of the 95 engaged, had mild symptoms of organophosphate intoxication [13],... 

A medical command post for medical operation control is also seems to be necessary for on-site coordination and control of medical teams, ambulances, coordination with other rescue teams, providing logistic needs such as trust-able communication measures, rapid transportation and safety measures for medical personnel. 

Full-face masks of class 3 are designed for use by emergency teams, fire fighters, or rescue teams in mining operations. Class 2 masks are by far the most common full-face masks in use. In comparison to class 3 masks they possess a decreased resistance, especially against heat radiation. Because class 1 full-face masks offer significantly reduced protective properties, they are not allowed to be equipped with coimectors for round or central screw threads or screw threads of type M 45 X 3. FuU-face masks are permitted for use in combination with external air supply as weU as with particle or gas filters. All use areas for class 1 to 3 full masks are listed in Table 6.20. 

Emergency medical workers would benefit from preincident warnings by entertaining a broader range of hypotheses when entering an illness or injury site where the risks are unclear. These added considerations could be the difference between the loss or incapacitation of the rescue team or the secondary spread of potentially contaminated/infected patients to other health care sites. 

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