Reopening public facilities after a biological attack : a decision making framework /

The anthrax attacks in fall 2001 spurred an extensive and costly decontamination effort where many decisions had to be made about which sites required cleanup, what method to use, how to determine the effectiveness of the cleanup, and how "clean" the building had to be for reoccupation. As...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Standards and Policies for Decontaminating Public Facilities Affected by Exposure to Harmful Biological Agents: How Clean Is Safe?
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Bioterrorism.
Emergency management > United States.
Civil defense > United States.
Biological Warfare > prevention & control
Decontamination > standards
Public Facilities
Civil Defense > organization & administration
Bioterrorism
Bioterrorisme.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Civil defense
Emergency management
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 2001 attacks and cleanup
  • Context of the study and charge to the Committee
  • Content and structure
  • Infectious disease threats
  • Ability of microorganisms to infect people
  • Infectious disease as a weapon
  • Agents of concern to national security and public health
  • Biological agents considered in this report
  • Policy precedents in decontamination
  • Microbial decontamination in food and water supplies
  • Biosafety in microbiological and biomedical laboratories
  • Environmental infection control in health care facilities
  • Decontamination of U.S. Army Biological Warfare laboratories
  • Development of Superfund and remediation plans
  • Remediation experiences in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex
  • Anthrax decontamination after the 2001 attacks: social and political context
  • Uncertain science, certain social division
  • Case study selection.
  • Framework for event management
  • Hazard identification and assessment
  • Identification of the agent
  • Evaluating the state of the agent
  • Evaluating the state of the contaminated building
  • Factors influencing exposure to harmful biological agents in indoor environments
  • Exposure
  • Sources
  • Building design and operations
  • Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems
  • Transport and fate of harmful biological agents
  • Deposition
  • Resuspension
  • Preparing and operating buildings for a bioterrorism attack and subsequent operation
  • Analyzing health risks
  • Assessment of risks posed by a biological hazard
  • Dose-response: principles and uncertainties
  • Sampling strategies and technologies
  • Sampling and identification
  • General sampling plan for quantifying the extent of cleanup
  • Decontamination practices and principles.
  • Processes for decontamination of harmful biological agents and other response options
  • Decontamination of harmful biological agents by chemical and physical methods
  • Examples of decontamination: Hart Senate Office Building and American Media International Building
  • Safe reoccupation of a facility
  • Planning for biological agent attack
  • Buildings declared contaminated
  • Harmful biological agents in a public facility: the airport scenario
  • Planning can make a major difference
  • All findings and recommendations
  • Other relevant case studies
  • Were the 2001 anthrax exposures consistent with dose-response: the case of the AMI building.

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