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Dear Friends,

As the United States prepares a defense against migratory birds carrying the avian flu virus, Alaska officials are recruiting a group that knows all about containment -- prison guards.

 

Corrections officers at Alaska's Point MacKenzie Correctional Farm, a minimum-security prison north of Anchorage, have been trained to spot signs of the H5N1 virus strain in wild birds and to test for bird flu in domesticated poultry, state officials said on Thursday.

 

Alaska is considered the United States' most likely point of entry for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, because it is at the crossroads of wild waterfowl and shorebird migration to and from Asia. This virus strain has infected 272 people and killed at least 110 people since 2003.

 

Migratory birds often rest and feed in barley fields near the prison fed by glacial waters, said Richard Schmitz, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections.

 

The prison guards will survey the wild flocks and send carcasses to the state environmental laboratory if they find groups of three or more dead birds.

 

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Safety – On the Workplace: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) & Hazard Assessment

 

PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT

 

To ensure the greatest possible protection for employees in the workplace, the cooperative efforts of both employers and employees will help in establishing and maintaining a safe and healthful work environment.

 

In general, employers are responsible for:

  • Performing a "hazard assessment" of the workplace to identify and control physical and health hazards.
  • Identifying and providing appropriate PPE for employees.
  • Training employees in the use and care of the PPE.
  • Maintaining PPE, including replacing worn or damaged PPE.
  • Periodically reviewing, updating and evaluating the effectiveness of the PPE program.

 

In general, employees should:

  • Properly wear PPE,
  • Attend training sessions on PPE,
  • Care for, clean and maintain PPE, and
  • Inform a supervisor of the need to repair or replace PPE.

 

HAZARD ASSESSMENT

 

A first critical step in developing a comprehensive safety and health program is to identify physical and health hazards in the workplace. This process is known as a "hazard assessment". Potential hazards may be physical or health-related and a comprehensive hazard assessment should identify hazards in both categories. Examples of physical hazards include moving objects, fluctuating temperatures, high intensity lighting, rolling or pinching objects, electrical connections and sharp edges. Examples of health hazards include overexposure to harmful dusts, chemicals or radiation.

The hazard assessment should begin with a walk-through survey of the facility to develop a list of potential hazards in the following basic hazard categories:

Impact, Penetration, Compression (roll-over), Chemical, Heat/cold, Harmful dust, Light (optical) radiation, and Biologic.

 

In addition to noting the basic layout of the facility and reviewing any history of occupational illnesses or injuries, things to look for during the walk-through survey include:

  1. Sources of electricity.
  2. Sources of motion such as machines/processes where movement may exist that could result in an impact.
  3. Sources of high temperatures that could result in burns, eye injuries or fire.
  4. Types of chemicals used in the workplace.
  5. Sources of harmful dusts.
  6. Sources of light radiation, such as welding, brazing, cutting,
  7. Furnaces, heat treating, high intensity lights, etc.
  8. The potential for falling or dropping objects.
  9. Sharp objects that could poke, cut, stab or puncture.
  10. Biologic hazards such as blood or other potentially infected material.

 

When the walk-through is complete, the employer should organize and analyze the data so that it may be efficiently used in determining the proper types of PPE required at the worksite. The employer should become aware of the different types of PPE available and the levels of protection offered. It is definitely a good idea to select PPE that will provide a level of protection greater than the minimum required to protect employees from hazards.

 

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It Happened 11 years ago…

April 19th 1995: Many feared dead in Oklahoma bombing

 

The Oklahoma bomb killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured more than 500 others.

It took rescuers almost six weeks to recover the bodies of all the victims from the rubble.

 

Timothy McVeigh, a 33-year old Gulf War veteran, was convicted of the attack and sentenced to death by lethal injection after a two-month trial. He was executed at Terre Haute federal prison in Indiana on 11 June 2001.

 

The motive for the attack was apparently retaliation against the US Government for the bloody end to a siege near Waco, Texas, in which 82 members of the Branch Davidian sect died.

 

In December 1997 his former army colleague Terry Nichols was convicted of manslaughter and conspiracy and sentenced to life in jail.

 

A third man, Michael Fortier, confessed to knowing in advance about the bombing and was sentenced to 12 years after agreeing to be a key witness for the prosecution.

 

In 2000 a memorial to the victims was opened by President Clinton at the site of the bombing.                                                ___________________________________________________

 

Today, we live surrounded by safety items and devices; such apparels are becoming part of our everyday urban landscape. Nobody wishes to ever having to use any of those protection products – but to know they are there “just in case”, that should be everyone’s concern.

 

Have a good week,

 

The Safer America Team

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