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Disaster Health Workers During Hurricane Sandy: A Case Study

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Occupational Health Concerns
Many of the hazards occur to health workers during the hurricanes. Some of the specific hazards associated with healthcare working in hurricanes include:
Disaster Mental Health Traumatic Stress Disaster mental health is area of concern in occupational safety and health. Special attention should be paid to the stress experienced by emergency responders and disaster health workers. (CDC,2011).Van, Kovner , Raveis, McCollum, and Keller, (2014) conducted the study to explore nurses ' experience in the immediate disaster and the subsequent deployment during hurricane Sandy. The study revealed that more than 50 % of nurse participants reported the experience to be extremely or very stressful. Disaster health workers faced a particular challenges such as working in an unfamiliar environment, uncertainty about future, limited orientation, in addition to legal concerns about clinical assignments. Furthermore, the nurses who participated in …show more content…

It is important to develop programs and plans to address fatigue issues among health workers during disasters . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009) had established "Guidance for Managing Worker Fatigue During Disaster Operations". According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the programs and plans that address occupational fatigue issues during disasters should have the following four components: (a) assessment of the nature of incidents and the types of work performed, (b)Identification of risk factors to which the workers can be exposed, (c) controls of different risk factors identified in the previous component. This component explain the organization’s policies, work practices, and procedures that address the issue; (d) evaluation the process that will be used to investigate the effectiveness of the controls in reducing the risk of worker fatigue(CDC,

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