Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Crisis preparedness of companies e examples especially in the light of chemical incident preparedness
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Title
Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Crisis preparedness of companies e examples especially in the light of chemical incident preparedness
Crisis preparedness of companies e examples especially in the light of chemical incident preparedness
Subject
Crisis preparedness, companies , light of chemical incident preparedness
Description
Introduction: Doctors for Occupational health play a critical role in the disaster and crisis preparedness of companies e especially in the oil-and gas business. In the past the preparedness focus was on chemical emergencies and impact of natural disasters e but due to the COVID crisis pandemic preparedness had to be attention too.
Materials and Methods: All Oil and Gas Companies worldwide focus on risk mitigation, which needs first a proper risk assessment and the development of tailor-made plans for preparedness e from information, to scenario building and training.
Results: In this presentation the main focus will be given on chemical hazard prevention on the example of H2S prevention -from risk assessment, to proper PPE, occupational health examination of staff working in H2S environment, rescue provision & awareness, First Aid and medical staff training. Besides this example of “classical preparedness ideas of pandemic preparedness will be presented with a focus on “lessons learned” during the pandemic crisis.
Conclusions: In this session the tasks of occupational health staff in
crisis and disaster preparedness are described with the focus on H2S preparedness and some main lessons learned from the pandemic crises with specific examples of organisations are given as well.
Materials and Methods: All Oil and Gas Companies worldwide focus on risk mitigation, which needs first a proper risk assessment and the development of tailor-made plans for preparedness e from information, to scenario building and training.
Results: In this presentation the main focus will be given on chemical hazard prevention on the example of H2S prevention -from risk assessment, to proper PPE, occupational health examination of staff working in H2S environment, rescue provision & awareness, First Aid and medical staff training. Besides this example of “classical preparedness ideas of pandemic preparedness will be presented with a focus on “lessons learned” during the pandemic crisis.
Conclusions: In this session the tasks of occupational health staff in
crisis and disaster preparedness are described with the focus on H2S preparedness and some main lessons learned from the pandemic crises with specific examples of organisations are given as well.
Creator
Susanne Schunder-Tatzber
Publisher
Elsevier Korea LLC
Date
January 2022
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
Format
PDF
Language
English
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Text
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
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Citation
Susanne Schunder-Tatzber, “Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Crisis preparedness of companies e examples especially in the light of chemical incident preparedness,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 22, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2404.
Crisis preparedness of companies e examples especially in the light of chemical incident preparedness,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 22, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2404.