Personal safety as well as occupational safety are always a priority in limiting injuries and illnesses to exposures. This applies in the field as well as in the lab. This article is written from experiences to share and hopefully assist those working in the field. Bio-hazards, Chemical hazards, or Physical hazards. A hazard is considered the lack of safety or degree of risk to an exposure situation.
Safety is the first duty to consider in any occupation or task.
After working many types of disasters, high profile cases and hazardous crime scenes, experience has shown that something new can be learned from each experience. Each experience has generated unique and different challenges. Those challenges require immediate attention and revisions to the plan of operations being conducted. The one constant in these types of challenges is change. One such experience in mid-summer of 1995 involved a hazardous material response.