OHDEN, the Occupational Health Disaster Expert Network

Flu virus EM image from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb

Contributed & States, Community Resources

Links to States' plans

California Specific Recommendations

Workplace Specific Recommendations

• Anon. multi-national firm
• Corning International
• Dartmouth Medical Center
• Contributed instructive materials
• Labor's comments on Federal plans
• University Consortium plan

Online Discussions via Occ-Env-Med-L

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Worksite Specific Plans and Contributions from Occ-Env-Med-L Readers

• Multinational Corporate Plan (Requires Excel to display)

Contributed by one of our Occ-Env-Med-L members, this plan is very carefully and dispassionately authored to preserve life and corporate integrity. It is displayed in Excel, emphasizing the fiscal / organizational approach. It's very compelling reading, especially in its response to stepwise collapse of organized society.

Same company, new content, added May 2006. This is a MS-Word / *.DOC file.

• National Business Group on Health

An Employer Toolkit: Terrorism Preparedness and Planning: A Public/Private Partnership. This speaks of  "Terrorism", but actually discusses emergency planning and worksite public health issues in great detail.

• Avian Influenza, Political, Social, and Economic Dimensions of the Continuing Threat from Emerging Infectious Diseases. A Symposium

Powerpoint, 15 slides, 48K summarizing a multidisciplinary symposium held Nov. 15, 2005 at The George Washington University, Washington DC.

Sponsored by International Resource Group (IRG); Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health, GW School of Public Health and Health Services.
Contributed by Tee Guidotti, GWUMC


Avian Influenza: A Symposium Report  

• Occupational Health Aspects of Avian Flu, November, 2005

Powerpoint presentation to WHO by John Halpin, MD Occupational & Environmental Medicine chief resident at UIC, University of Illinois/Chicago School of Public Health, while spending a month at the Occupational medicine section of WHO


 

• Corning Incorporated

Corning is "a diversified technology company with a proud history of developing breakthrough technologies". Products include "LCD displays for communications and entertainment; optical fiber, cable, hardware and equipment for fiber-to-the-premises applications; and emissions-control technology for light-, medium- and heavy-duty diesel vehicles." It has approximately 25,000 employees worldwide, with headquarters in Corning, NY and research centers in N. America, Europe, Asia. 2004 revenues were $3.85 B. Its Medical Director, James L. Schuppert, MD, contributed 2 planning documents for review and consideration by other employers.

• Medical Crisis Plan Risk Response

This document is a planning table for a multi-disciplinary response (including contractor relations) at several levels of medical crisis, for business level activities.

 

• Medical Preparedness Grid

This second document offers more general preparation information for mass illness, for facility based granular level activities.  The facility grid has been used as the basis for auditing the level of response by having each facility fill it out and then it is reviewed by Director of Health Services and the Director of Health and Safety.

 

• Short Advice document provided to a local utility company

• Abbreviated, US-Focused Derivative from New Zealand Plan

This (un-named) organization has created a version of the New Zealand program that drops the local references and tries to adapt it to US norms. The original is here. The copy here is saved as an *.rtf file, and can be read with any word-processor. I converted it to a MS-Word doc file.

• Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center's Readiness Plan for Epidemic Respiratory Infection

A 22 page Word/Doc file, includes

• Six Levels Of Alert
• Level: Ready

• Level: Green

Confirmed Efficient Human-To-Human Transmission Of Potentially Epidemic Contagious Respiratory Infection Present Outside The Us And Bordering Countries (Canada And Mexico)

• Outpatient Management Protocol
• Inpatient Management Protocol

• University of North Carolina's Guidance to Students, Staff.

This isn't a pandemic plan, but a practical posting to members of a community with achievable instructions for immediate use.

• American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (ASFCME)

Critique and Petition regarding the National Pandemic Flu plan

The main focus is that there's little or no attention to protecting the huge mobilized workforce for healthcare. It requests higher standards of Engineering, personal and risk stratification.

T. Warner Hudson, III, MD, FACOEM, FAAFP Dir Health Safety & Env DST Output	Peter H. Wald, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM AVP Wellness , USAA F-SVC-E
Planning grid / matrix (Excel file) for Pandemic stage-specific planning. These grids very compelling, and drive very specific steps, without overlapping suggestions and repetition.

• Sidney Siu, MD, CIH, FACOEM

Medical Director SRS Consultants Inc

Essay explaining pandemic concepts and planning in non-technical terms.

• University Pandemic Planning

Insurance Coordinated by Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services

Word document, 53 pages, developed by several universities, and "excerpted and revised with permission by the World Health Organization from their document titled, "WHO checklist for influenza pandemic preparedness planning."

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. is ranked as the world's fourth largest insurance broker. Gallagher Higher Education Practice Group specializes in serving the risk management and insurance needs of institutions of higher learning in the U.S.  

Universities contributing co-authors (largely Risk Management officers, some HR & Environmental Safety) include

Cornell University Michigan State University Northern Illinois University Syracuse University

Texas Christian University University of Chicago University of Denver

University of Illinois University of Texas Wheaton College

See also the CDC's Checklists for a (not yet available, 3/14/06) University plan. Dr. Gerberding included "Colleges & Universities" on a slide of proposed guidance documents.

Contributed by Chuck Cooper Dir. EH&S Portland State University

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• RI Committee on Occupational Safety & Health

Instructive memos (Word doc files) for Healthcare Workers on:

A Guide To Biological Hazards  in the WorkplaceHCWs.doc

Flu planning, All Hazards Approach

Emerging Infectious Disease and Infection Control2.doc

Submitted by James Celenza of RI Committee on Occupational Safety & Health (RICOSH)

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• UC Davis Emergency Management

Campus Avian Flu / Pandemic Information

A draft position paper to help campus planning efforts: “Telecommuter Planning Options in the Event of a Pandemic”

An historical account of how the U-C Berkley campus coped with the 1918 pandemic

Submitted by Warner Hudson, MD

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• Pandemic Intro Talk, including Corporate pandemic influenza preparedness.

Good compilation of facts, few useful graphs of epidemic profiles.

Powerpoint for download.

Contributed by Doug Ball, MD, MA ; Resident Community & Preventive Medicine; Univ. of Rochester

Occ-Env-Med-L Discussions

Topics can also be searched at web archives. Look for "pandemic", "avian" or "H5N1", especially in the subject line

• Compiled replies re: Avian or Pandemic Flu planning (December 14, 2005) incl 7 replies combined

• Pandemic Flu Preparedness (Nov 18, 2005) 2 msgs

• Peramivir: Single Dose Prophylaxis for Flu? (Oct 13, 2005) 1 msg

• Flu pandemic corporate preparedness (Oct 10, 2005), 6 messages

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