Reopening public facilities after a biological attack
Subtitle: a decision making framework
By: Committee on Standards and Policies for Decontaminating Public Facilities Affected by Exposure to Harmful Biological Agents: How Clean is Safe?
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Bioterrorism.; Emergency management -- United States.; Civil defense -- United States.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: 2001 attacks and cleanup; value: Context of the study and charge to the Committee; value: Content and structure; value: Infectious disease threats; value: Ability of microorganisms to infect people; value: Infectious disease as a weapon; value: Agents of concern to national security and public health; value: Biological agents considered in this report; value: Policy precedents in decontamination; value: Microbial decontamination in food and water supplies; value: Biosafety in microbiological and biomedical laboratories; value: Environmental infection control in health care facilities; value: Decontamination of U.S. Army Biological Warfare laboratories; value: Development of Superfund and remediation plans; value: Remediation experiences in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex; value: Anthrax decontamination after the 2001 attacks: social and political context; value: Uncertain science, certain social division; value: Case study selection; value: Framework for event management; value: Hazard identification and assessment; value: Identification of the agent; value: Evaluating the state of the agent; value: Evaluating the state of the contaminated building; value: Factors influencing exposure to harmful biological agents in indoor environments; value: Exposure; value: Sources; value: Building design and operations; value: Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems; value: Transport and fate of harmful biological agents; value: Deposition; value: Resuspension; value: Preparing and operating buildings for a bioterrorism attack and subsequent operation; value: Analyzing health risks; value: Assessment of risks posed by a biological hazard; value: Dose-response: principles and uncertainties; value: Sampling strategies and technologies; value: Sampling and identification; value: General sampling plan for quantifying the extent of cleanup; value: Decontamination practices and principles; value: Processes for decontamination of harmful biological agents and other response options; value: Decontamination of harmful biological agents by chemical and physical methods; value: Examples of decontamination: Hart Senate Office Building and American Media International Building.; value: Safe reoccupation of a facility; value: Planning for biological agent attack; value: Buildings declared contaminated; value: Harmful biological agents in a public facility: the airport scenario; value: Planning can make a major difference; value: All findings and recommendations; value: Other relevant case studies; value: Were the 2001 anthrax exposures consistent with dose-response: the case of the AMI building.