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1 WELCOME + The meeting room is currently muted. Audio: Use your computer speakers, or dial ; Access code Mute: Your line has been muted as a courtesy to others. Q/A: There will be a designated Q/A session for participants to submit questions to the speaker. Please chat questions in. This session will begin promptly at the scheduled start time. We appreciate your patience.

2 Welcome! Puerto Rico Hurricane: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Pablo Méndez Lázaro, Ph.D. Sergio A. Caporali Filho, Ph.D., CSP, CIH Mark Ames, MA

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3 Accreditation Information Individual participants seeking credit MUST: participate in the live webinar or review the recording complete an online evaluation If you are an additional individual participating with a group, you must also submit a fee* for credit. Board of Certified Safety Professionals American Board of Industrial Hygiene *FEE DOES NOT APPLY TO ELEARNING SUBSCRIPTION MEMBERS

4 CERTIFICATION MAINTENANCE CONT D *The deadline for participants to submit the processing fee and online evaluation for the LIVE WEBINAR is November 15, Credit will not be awarded and may not be claimed by individuals who have not submitted the evaluation and processing fee (where applicable). Allow 1-2 weeks after submitting the required materials to receive notification that your education transcript has been updated to reflect course completion and credit awarded. *elearning Subscribers have until January 31, 2019 to submit their evaluations for credit

5 DISCLAIMER & COPYRIGHT Although the information contained in this webinar has been compiled from sources believed to be reliable, the presenter and AIHA make no guarantee as to, and assumes no responsibility for, the correctness, sufficiency, or completeness of such information. Since standards and codes vary from one place to another, consult with your local Occupational or Environmental Health and Safety professional to determine the current state of the art before applying what you learn from this webinar. AIHA must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in its educational events. Instructors are expected to disclose any significant financial interests or other relationships. The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent an instructor from presenting, but to provide participants with information to base their own judgments. It remains up to the participant to determine whether an instructor s interests or relationships may influence the presentation. Webinar presentation material belongs to the presenter with usage rights given to AIHA. This webinar and associated materials cannot be reproduced, rebroadcast, or made into derivative works without express written permission.

Sciences Campus Graduate School of Public Health Department of Environmental

6 Puerto Rico Hurricane: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Pablo Méndez Lázaro, Ph.D. Sergio A. Caporali Filho, Ph.D., CSP, CIH University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus Graduate School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health Industrial Hygiene Program August 2018

7 LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Identify key steps in hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery 2. Identify hazards associated with hurricanes 3. Discuss the partnerships that take place between businesses, governments, volunteers, and professional organizations 4. Understand the current status of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and continuing needs.

8 Avondale Fire & Medical Department

9 Emergency Plans Hazard Mitigation Plans Business Continuity Plans Evacuation Plans Long Term Recovery Plans Emergency Operations Plans Vulnerable Population Plans The Stafford Act requires that each state have a FEMA approved HMP to qualify for various types of assistance. The Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 amended the Stafford Act and requires all state and local governments to develop a HMP in order to receive pre and post-disaster federal mitigation funds.

Bomb! Puerto Rico experienced major disruptions in essential services (e.g.

10 On September 2017 Puerto Rico experienced one of the most catastrophic hurricane seasons in recent history 2.Identify hazards associated with hurricanes IVB Ticking Bomb! Puerto Rico experienced major disruptions in essential services (e.g. potable water and electric power, telecommunications, transportation roads and bridges) and environmental health issues (e.g. water sanitation, contaminant exposure, vector borne diseases, food hygiene, carbon monoxide poisoning, exposure to mold, inhalation and dermal chemical hazard exposures, heat stress, power tool hazards, and all OSHA focus four hazards).

11 On September 2017 Puerto Rico experienced one of the most catastrophic hurricane seasons in recent history 2.Identify hazards associated with hurricanes

12 On September 2017 Puerto Rico experienced one of the most catastrophic hurricane seasons in recent history 2.Identify hazards associated with hurricanes

13 4. Understand the current status of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and continuing needs.

14 4. Understand the current status of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and continuing needs.

15 4. Understand the current status of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and continuing needs.

16 All Systems Collapsed (Communication, Transportation, Electric Power, Water, Health, etc.) 2. Identify hazards associated with hurricanes 4. Understand the current status of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and continuing needs

19 All Systems Collapsed (Communication, Transportation, Electric Power, Water, Health, etc.) 2. Identify hazards associated with hurricanes 4. Understand the current status of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and continuing needs Life concurrent events Engineering Resilience Ecological Resilience

21 1. Identify key steps in hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery 3. Discuss the partnerships that take place between businesses, governments, volunteers, and professional organizations Principle one: Maintain diversity and redundancy (more than 1 version: e.g. computer back-ups, ecological diversity, energy production, reservoirs-water resources). Principle two: Manage connectivity. Principle three: Manage slow variables and feedbacks (e.g. cultural and social values) Principle four: Foster complex adaptive systems thinking (e.g. interactions of components) Principle five: Encourage learning Principle six: Broaden participation Resilience starts from the belief that humans and nature are strongly coupled to the point that they should be conceived as one social-ecological system. Principle seven Promote polycentric governance

E.g. Somalia vs Las Vegas: Climate, Migration and Cities NY Apr 2018 1.

22 E.g. Somalia vs Las Vegas: Climate, Migration and Cities NY Apr Identify key steps in hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery Kanta Kumari Climate Change Group: World Bank Walter Kaelin Former: Switzerland. Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (UN Human Rights Representative) Vicky Arroyo Ex. Director. Georgetown Climate Center Alexander Aleinkoff (Director: Inst. On Migration and Mobility The New School)

23 1. Identify key steps in hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery 3. Discuss the partnerships that take place between businesses, governments, volunteers, and professional organizations The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, age and died. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels. Beyond the profile, we need to pay attention to the interactions and processes that are key components of the system. After all, our Adaptive Capacity could be determined by these pre-existing conditions.

Despite widespread devastation, PR was in a dire social-ecological and technological situation long before the hurricane struck the island limiting our capacity to prepare, response and recover. 1.

24 Despite widespread devastation, PR was in a dire social-ecological and technological situation long before the hurricane struck the island limiting our capacity to prepare, response and recover. 1. Identify key steps in hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery Bankruptcy: Economic and Fiscal conditions in Puerto Rico were dire (PROMESA Financial Oversight and Management Board). Expensive obsolete infrastructure that fulfilled its Life Cycle with very limited maintenance. The highest rate of unemployment in the US The highest rate of population living below poverty level in the US

land use planning allows to built residential units in such remote and inaccessible

25 Poor Land Use Regulations (PR failed in Land Use Planning ) Learning Objectives 1-4 there is no place inhabited in Puerto Rico the lack of law enforcement, the lack of land use planning allows to built residential units in such remote and inaccessible areas where it is unsustainable to offer essential services. The most vulnerable.

nderstand the current status of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and continuing needs.

28 Poor Land Use Regulations (PR failed in Land Use Planning ) 3.Discuss the partnerships that take place between businesses, governments, volunteers, and professional organizations 4.nderstand the current status of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and continuing needs. Structural mitigation techniques include building dams, levees, breakwaters, and containment ponds to hold water or slow its flow; building civil defense shelters; and other physical means to reduce potential loss of life and property.

29 Structural mitigation techniques vs Non-structural 3.Discuss the partnerships that take place between businesses, governments, volunteers, and professional organizations Building standards and codes, Tax incentives/disincentives, Zoning ordinances, Land-use regulations, Preventive health care programs Early Warning Systems Public education

30 Rep. Bill Foster Ph.D., Congressman from Illinois 11th District and member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and House Committee on Financial Services 3.Discuss the partnerships that take place between businesses, governments, volunteers, and professional organizations the location of streets and water lines affects the value of property and, thus, where developers are willing to invest. Highway interchanges attract fast food restaurants and motels. Major intersections are good locations for other kinds of businesses Not all communities choose to regulate development

31 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes Photo: NOAA How do we keep workers safe from chemical, biological, electrical, fall, struck by, caught between, road, power tool, and other hazards during hurricane preparedeness, response and recovery?

32 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes

33 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes How to train ourselves on how to respond and not react?

34 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes

35 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes Carbon Monoxide Fire Electrical Shock and Electrocution Noise Chemical Exposure Photo: Kohler

36 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes Photo: Tony Emmolo, CSP

37 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes

38 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes

39 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes OSHA FOCUS FOUR HAZARDS

40 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROAD HAZARDS

41 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes POWER TOOL USE

42 Identify Occupational hazards associated with hurricanes WALKING AROUND AND REMOVING CONTAMINATED DEBRIS

43 1. Identify key steps in hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery 3. Discuss the partnerships that take place between businesses, governments, volunteers, and professional organizations

44 1. Identify key steps in hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery 3. Discuss the partnerships that take place between businesses, governments, volunteers, and professional organizations AIHA members and Workplace Without Borders donated over 10 pallets worth of Personal Protective Equipment OSHA approved a change of scope in our Susan Harwood Training Grant on September 22 nd 2017 in order for us to address hurricane recovery hazards in our training Training was developed to be delivered without electrical power. Almost all PPE has been passed on to workers with appropriate hands on training during: Our trips to different affected communities since October 2017 Our OSHA Susan Harwood Training since December 2017 So far, over 1,200 workers have been trained and over 2,000 people in total have benefited from our OSHA training grant and the PPE donated

45 Relief and Recovery Efforts Identify key steps in hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery 4. Understand the current status of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and continuing needs.

47 Migration in the Caribbean after 2017 Hurricane Season

48 Relief and Recovery Efforts 2017

62 Thank you for your attention! Pablo A. Méndez-Lázaro Sergio A. Caporali Filho University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences Campus Graduate School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health exts. 2928, 1438

63 Don t forget to complete your evaluation! Upcoming Webinars: Empowering Industrial Hygienists With Systems Thinking for ISO Thursday, September 6, 2018 Comparative Ethics Tuesday, October 30, 2018 Air Sampling Strategies and Analysis Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Thank You!

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