Reopening public facilities after a biological attack : a decision making framework / / Committee on Standards and Policies for Decontaminating Public Facilities Affected by Exposure to Harmful Biological Agents: How Clean is Safe?.

• Author: 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?
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 210 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• 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.