• Extensive water damage after major hurricanes and floods increases the likelihood of mold contamination in buildings. (cdc.gov)
  • HHEs have also helped frontline emergency responders do their jobs safely following disaster situations such as hurricanes and floods. (cdc.gov)
  • The primary goal for pre-deployment (or comparable pre-exposure) medical screening programs is to evaluate a worker's fitness to perform potentially hazardous or stressful work safely, which includes the assessment of minimal physical and emotional requirements to perform work activities. (cdc.gov)
  • Pre-deployment screening is particularly important for work in areas affected by natural disasters because the potential for exposure to hazardous conditions or agents may not be easily predicted, adequately characterized, or effectively controlled. (cdc.gov)
  • Pre-deployment (or pre-exposure) biological monitoring for exposure to hazardous chemicals is not generally recommended. (cdc.gov)
  • Such monitoring is not practical for unanticipated exposures to hazardous chemicals. (cdc.gov)
  • Because the primary reason for pre-deployment medical screening is to evaluate workers' fitness to perform potentially hazardous or stressful tasks safely, screening immediately before deployment is optimal. (cdc.gov)
  • An ATSDR health consultation is a verbal or written response from ATSDR to a specific request for information about health risks related to a specific site, a chemical release, or the presence of hazardous material. (cdc.gov)
  • Environmental Quality Management, Inc. (EQM) is an environmental engineering and remediation company headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio that has been active in providing environmental remediation support in response to terrorist attacks, the space shuttle disaster, superfund site cleanup, hazardous chemical spills and natural disasters. (wikipedia.org)
  • Due to concerns over hazardous exposures and site disturbances, the company was under pressure to rapidly accomplish and secure recovery. (wikipedia.org)
  • The main pillars of his professional work include analyzing and explaining the environmental distributions and fates hazardous chemical and petroleum releases, and ecological effects from chemical exposures. (exponent.com)
  • 48 hours will generally support visible and extensive mold growth and should be remediated, and excessive exposure to mold-contaminated materials can cause adverse health effects in susceptible persons regardless of the type of mold or the extent of contamination. (cdc.gov)
  • The duration of flooding, the extent of flooding, and the number of structures flooded in New Orleans as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in August and September 2005 made the likelihood of massive mold contamination a certainty. (cdc.gov)
  • DHHS) or the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) of tory workers and to prevent contamination of the outside en- the possession of specific pathogens or toxins (i.e., select vironment ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Contamination of the living environment from asbestos-containing products is another source of exposure. (medscape.com)
  • He has contributed to the leadership and management of numerous disaster responses including the Libby, Montana, Public Health Emergency involving widespread asbestos contamination, major hurricanes, the H1N1 influenza, Ebola, and Zika outbreaks, the World Trade Center and anthrax attacks, and the Gulf Oil Spill. (intlexposurescience.org)
  • The evaluations focus on the processing sites and on human health effects that might be associated with possible past, current, or future exposure to asbestos from processing operations. (cdc.gov)
  • The sites that processed Libby vermiculite will be evaluated by (1) identifying ways people could have been exposed to asbestos in the past and ways that people could be exposed now and (2) determining whether the exposures represent a public health hazard. (cdc.gov)
  • The company provides services in the following areas: Air Quality Services Emergency Response Environmental Management Industrial Hygiene Steel Cement EQM conducted a monitoring study of residential buildings located north and southwest of Ground Zero to determine the presence of dioxins, PCBs, inorganic metals, and asbestos. (wikipedia.org)
  • EQM made recommendations to ensure proper cleanup of the asbestos-contaminated dust and to reduce the exposure of cleanup personnel and occupants returning to buildings. (wikipedia.org)
  • Exposure to asbestos can cause both benign and malignant, pulmonary and pleural diseases. (medscape.com)
  • It is critical to be aware of complications from asbestos exposure, which often arise decades after exposure. (medscape.com)
  • The main preventable cause of malignant mesothelioma has been exposure to commercial materials made or contaminated with asbestos. (medscape.com)
  • The most common exposure to commercial asbestos is occupational, although workers' families are also at risk from indirect "take-home" exposures transported by contaminated items such as clothing. (medscape.com)
  • Heavy exposures tend to occur in the construction industry and in ship repair, particularly during removal of asbestos materials due to renovation, repairs, or demolition. (medscape.com)
  • Exposure to asbestos occurs through inhalation of fibers in air in the working environment, ambient air in the vicinity of factories handling asbestos, or indoor air in housing and buildings containing asbestos materials. (medscape.com)
  • Asbestos with or without tobacco smoke exposure is a major risk factor for lung cancer. (medscape.com)
  • Posteroanterior (PA) chest radiograph in a 58-year-old man with a history of occupational exposure to asbestos shows right diaphragmatic pleural plaque calcifications, linear calcification along the left pericardium, and bilateral pleural plaques along upper ribs. (medscape.com)
  • 50 y) was noted to have a mass in the left lower lobe after exposure to asbestos. (medscape.com)
  • NIOSH developed an Alert, Preventing Occupational Respiratory Disease from Exposures Caused by Dampness in Office Buildings, Schools, and Other Nonindustrial Buildings , that provides information on respiratory disease related to indoor dampness and recommendations for preventing and remediating damp buildings. (cdc.gov)
  • NIOSH also developed dampness and mold assessment tools for use in general buildings and schools as an inexpensive way to track, record, and compare conditions over time. (cdc.gov)
  • 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES 2014): Exposure Science Integration to Protect Ecological Systems, Human Well-Being, and Occupational Health, October 12-16, 2014, Cincinnati, Ohio. (cdc.gov)
  • At a minimum, workers should be screened for fitness, and baseline information should be obtained for all hurricane disaster workers before the start of response work. (cdc.gov)
  • This document provides general guidance on medical screening for workers before beginning disaster response activities and will be reassessed periodically and updated as appropriate. (cdc.gov)
  • EQ assisted in the mobilization of response resources, including coordination with the New York City Building and Construction Trades Council and the Construction Employers Association, Bechtel Corporation (the contractor responsible for developing the overall WTC Disaster Site Safety and Health Plan), and other parties with respect to the training programs that could be promptly provided by the grantee organizations. (wikipedia.org)
  • The assessment of the safety and health status at the Site was based on on-site observations and analysis of the WTC Disaster Site Worker Injury and Illness Surveillance Update Reports issued by the City Health Department. (wikipedia.org)
  • Within hours of the Columbia disaster, U.S. EPA Region 6 used its Emergency and Rapid Response Services (ERRS) contract to contact EQM for help in the recovery effort. (wikipedia.org)
  • He currently leads the NIH Disaster Research Response (DR2) Program which focuses on improving national and international disaster research capabilities through enhancing policies, infrastructure, training, and integration of stakeholders, especially academia and impacted communities. (intlexposurescience.org)
  • On August 29 and September 24, 2005, hurricanes Katrina and Rita, respectively, made landfall along the Gulf Coast. (cdc.gov)
  • Recent parallels to the kind of flooding observed in New Orleans as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita occurred in 1997 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and in 1999 in North Carolina after Hurricane Floyd ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: Patients (N = 102) completed longitudinal NCF assessments that included measures of verbal memory, processing speed, and executive function. (bvsalud.org)
  • The longitudinal data will allow us to evaluate potential mechanisms underlying the links between mental and physical disorders. (cdc.gov)
  • Another reason, as our work suggests, is that these exposures led to basic biological changes that impact both mental and physical health. (cdc.gov)
  • This includes when reports encompass a wide-range of chemicals, limited reference or health standards exist for those chemicals, and/or incompatibility of data generated from exposure assessment tools with published reference values (e.g., comparing a wristband concentration to an oral reference dose). (bvsalud.org)
  • His practice also directly involves the environmental fate and transport of chemicals as well as exposure and impact assessment. (exponent.com)
  • 2022. Evaluating predictive relationships between wristbands and urine for assessment of personal PAH exposure. (nih.gov)
  • 2022. Developing a short assessment of environmental health literacy (SA-EHL). (nih.gov)
  • After the first physical, medical and emergency response, identification of psychological distress symptoms is useful in guiding public health efforts in the aftermath of disasters. (bvsalud.org)
  • Utilizing internet data, social media, and community networks to gather data for characterization of recovery worker exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • We will discuss a community-based risk assessment approach for gathering and evaluating photographic, digital, and narrative information in order to characterize recovery worker exposures following Hurricane Sandy. (cdc.gov)
  • I have evaluated diverse workplaces following loss reports due to alleged safety and public health concerns and offered mitigation strategies for worker safety under OSHA complaints, especially regarding respiratory protection. (experts.com)
  • I have served as an expert for multiple worker injury and wrongful death allegations within the context of environmental exposure. (experts.com)
  • With a unique community-based approach, we have pioneered a systematic collection of these media to understand and characterize exposure-related elements such as behaviors, recovery site tasks, protective equipment, and media comprising the muck and debris. (cdc.gov)
  • ATSDR is working with other local, state, and federal environmental and public health agencies to evaluate public health impacts at sites that processed Libby vermiculite. (cdc.gov)
  • A future report will summarize findings at the Phase 1 sites and include recommendations for evaluating other sites across the United States that received Libby vermiculite. (cdc.gov)
  • Phase 2: ATSDR will continue to evaluate former Libby vermiculite processing sites in accordance with the findings and recommendations contained in the summary report. (cdc.gov)
  • One reason is that both conditions arose from the horrific environmental and psychological exposures at the WTC site. (cdc.gov)
  • Most recently, he has become the lead for the Research to Action program, which supports projects using community-engaged research methods to investigate the potential health risks of environmental exposures of concern to a community and to seamlessly translate research findings into public health action. (intlexposurescience.org)
  • The microgravity environment onboard the ISS promotes superior 3-D cell growth conditions, enabling evaluations (using this cell line) that may better mimic the cellular response of human tissues. (issnationallab.org)
  • PM10 and a pro-inflammatory diet (assessed by the Dietary Inflammatory Index [DII]) have been individually evaluated as causes of PTB and differences by offspring sex have been reported for the DII. (cdc.gov)
  • Deposition in the lung parenchyma results in an inflammatory/progressively fibrotic response, with impaired gas exchange and reduced lung compliance (ie, asbestosis), causing progressive dyspnea and respiratory failure for which only palliation is indicated. (medscape.com)
  • When exposures to specific chemical agents are predictable, workers should be adequately protected. (cdc.gov)
  • Reports aim to increase environmental health literacy, but this can be challenging due to the many unknowns regarding chemical exposure and human health effects. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 2008, HHE investigators evaluated chemical and particle exposures during firefighter training. (cdc.gov)
  • and chemical exposure and injury assessment. (exponent.com)
  • This report provides information on how to limit exposure to mold and how to identify and prevent mold-related health effects. (cdc.gov)
  • In North Carolina, a reported increase in persons presenting with asthma symptoms was postulated to be caused by exposure to mold ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • I specialize in structural fire forensic investigation and testing, routinely leverage post-flood emergency response expertise in buildings, specific to microbial disinfection, mold mitigation, and source mold under forensic methods of investigation that may exist under alleged building construction defects. (experts.com)
  • NIEHS research uses state-of-the-art science and technology to investigate the interplay between environmental exposures, human biology, genetics, and common diseases to help prevent disease and improve human health. (nih.gov)
  • His scientific consulting work over 44 years has been interwoven with oil spill scientific assessments in relation to: emergency response, NRDA, as well as civil and criminal complaints arising from these matters. (exponent.com)
  • However, there may be some instances in which obtaining baseline specimens prior to deployment for work in environments with predictable exposures may be helpful in subsequently assessing whether the protections used during this work are adequate and performing as intended. (cdc.gov)
  • Enterprise Exposure Managerâ„¢ is a new scalable cloud-native solution that enables (re)insurers to evaluate enterprise-wide risk, providing an improved understanding of global exposures and insights into portfolio-wide risk accumulations to enable better-informed business decisions. (verisk.com)
  • Manage your risk appetite with an enhanced understanding of your global exposure. (verisk.com)
  • Evaluate enterprise-wide risk and gain insights into your global exposures with Enterprise Exposure Manager. (verisk.com)
  • Appendix F of BMBL is now being revised to include additional information regarding personnel, risk assessments, and inventory controls. (cdc.gov)
  • These recommendations include conducting facility risk assessments and developing comprehensive security plans to minimize the probability of misuse of select agents. (cdc.gov)
  • Hierarchical logistic regression analyses examined the relative contribution of current DSM-IV WTC- PTSD and LRS to impairments, adjusting for demographic, exposure, and health risk factors. (cdc.gov)
  • Workers in this population are at increased risk despite modest tobacco exposure. (medscape.com)
  • and technology is rapidly changing all of which affect our risk of exposure to the infectious agents with which we share our environment. (cdc.gov)
  • Complicating the increased risk people suffer in these countries because of higher lightning density, poor housing, and greater everyday exposure are the superstitions that may prevent adequate prevention and mitigation. (medscape.com)
  • In the acute care setting, OEM physicians consider whether an injury or illness is due to an occupational or environmental exposure. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The cause of some conditions, such as occupational asthma and contact dermatitis, may not initially be recognized as an occupational or environmental exposure, resulting in delay in controlling exposure to the inciting agent. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Make informed exposure capacity decisions by quickly assessing the impact of new business to your portfolio. (verisk.com)
  • Her current research, funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences focuses on the impact of environmental neurotoxicant exposure in rural adolescents, and development and validation of a real-time lab-on-a-chip sensor for blood metals detection. (intlexposurescience.org)
  • She has been working with communities to understand their environmental exposures through research and translation for nearly two decades. (intlexposurescience.org)
  • Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, response and recovery for the working-class neighborhoods in New York City's industrial waterfront areas required massive efforts by many different types of recovery workers, including residents, business owners and their employees, paid contractors, and volunteers both from within the affected communities and from other areas. (cdc.gov)
  • Three focus groups were conducted in separate neighborhoods in the Houston metropolitan area to evaluate response to prototype community and individual level report-backs. (bvsalud.org)
  • METHODS: Houston Hurricane Harvey Health (Houston-3H) participants wore silicone wristbands that were analyzed for 1,530 organic compounds at two time-points surrounding Hurricane Harvey. (bvsalud.org)
  • and (4) participants ability to comprehend and evaluate environmental health information. (bvsalud.org)
  • The company assisted in coordination of NIEHS-WETP grantee activities at the WTC Site, assessed the current safety and health status of response personnel working at the WTC Site, evaluated the current Site safety and health plans or programs and related aspects such as exposure monitoring with respect to worker protections, and performed a preliminary training needs assessment specific to the WTC Site activities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evidence is included about assessing exposure, clean-up and prevention, personal protective equipment, health effects, and public health strategies and recommendations. (cdc.gov)
  • Such a surveillance program will help CDC and state and local public health officials refine the guidelines for exposure avoidance, personal protection, and clean-up and assist health departments to identify unrecognized hazards. (cdc.gov)
  • CONCLUSIONS: The results of this collaborative approach highlight the importance of timely collection and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance data to inform public health responses. (cdc.gov)
  • Identify the composition and exposure quality of each treaty as well as your exposure all together. (verisk.com)
  • Considering potential environmental exposures in the differential diagnosis can help avoid a delay in diagnosis. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Cellular response to drug samples is observable via visible data acquisition in both tissues and small animal models. (issnationallab.org)
  • Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management's assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. (sec.gov)
  • The study objective is to test mechanisms thought to be responsible for the comorbidity between psychiatric and medical sequelae of World Trade Center (WTC) exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • Discover how Enterprise Exposure Manager can help you understand your exposure in the case of a real-time event. (verisk.com)
  • The HHE Program has evaluated numerous buildings and found that, if building dampness is addressed promptly, these problems can generally be corrected using standard remediation practices. (cdc.gov)
  • and a previously unknown hantavirus, producing an often fatal lung infection, was linked to exposure to infected rodents. (cdc.gov)
  • However, there was agreement amongst the focus groups about the desire to obtain personal exposure results despite the uncertainty of what the participant results meant. (bvsalud.org)
  • BACKGROUND: As exposure assessment has shifted towards community-engaged research there has been an increasing trend towards reporting results to participants. (bvsalud.org)
  • Bone loss in microgravity is an excellent model for osteoporosis because it is accelerated, progressive, and dose-dependent, yet bone loss equilibrates over long durations of microgravity exposure. (issnationallab.org)
  • The exposures, loss of property and damage to Informative System (IS) (GESMA, GEstione home. (bvsalud.org)
  • Before long, EQM and its team had 75 trained response personnel in the field assisting with the recovery effort. (wikipedia.org)
  • Learn how Verisk's Enterprise Exposure Manager improves decision-making with best-in-class exposure management, analytics, and high-performance portfolio modeling. (verisk.com)