[net-gold] [Workers' Compensation] How to Oil Spill Workers Can Register for NIOSH
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- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:28:21 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:46:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jon L. Gelman <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] [Workers' Compensation] How to Oil Spill Workers Can
Register for NIOSH
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Subject: [Workers' Compensation]
How to Oil Spill Workers Can Register for NIOSH
The National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) is developing
a voluntary roster of response workers
to create a record of those who have
participated in cleanup activities and
a mechanism to contact them about
possible work-related symptoms of
illness or injury, as needed.
The Unified Command and BP support the
roster and the goal of identifying all
workers, including volunteers, involved in
all response/cleanup activities.
Workers have the opportunity to be
rostered during training and at established
staging areas (locations to which trained
workers report for duty each day) in
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.
NIOSH also is rostering response workers
online through a secure web site. NIOSH has
provided the secure link to multiple federal
agencies and BP, and has asked them to refer
workers to the web site to complete the
rostering form electronically.
As of July 15, 2010 over 38,778 workers have
registered on the NIOSH roster.
NIOSH has requested that all cleanup workers
and volunteers register for the following
reasons:
"We know that workers may be potentially
exposed to things in an oil spill cleanup:
such as oils, volatile organic compounds,
polyaromatic hydrocarbons, diesel fumes, heat,
noise, and heavy lifting.
"We know that training will help provide
information to workers about these exposures,
and we are interested in what training workers
receive.
"We want to gather information from workers
involved in cleanup, so that after cleanup is
over, we can see if workers experienced any
symptoms related to the oil spill work.
Oil spill exposures may cause some workers to
experience symptoms like skin rash, throat
irritation and cough, and back pain. We do not
know if these symptoms will occur or if they do,
what will be the extent of these symptoms.
We want to learn as much as we can in order to
reduce symptoms now and in the future.
"Documenting symptoms in this incident may
provide information that NIOSH can use to protect
the health of workers in this clean up and in
future clean-up efforts.
Click here for the Roster Form.
To read more about federalization and workers'
compensation click here.
Click here for more information on how
Jon L Gelman can assist you in a
claim for workers' Compensation claim
benefits. You may e-mail Jon Gelman or
call 1-973-696-7900.
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