Deepwater Horizon Lessons Learned Workshop

Improving Safety and Health Training for Disaster Cleanup Workers
May 3-5, 2011
Mobile, Alabama

Purpose and Scope of the Workshop

The Worker Education and Training Program's (WETP) spring awardee meeting was held on May 3, 2011. The workshop was held May 4-5, 2011. Both meetings took place at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel in Mobile, Alabama.

This meeting examined the training-related Deepwater Horizon Oil response activities (as seen through the eyes of the Worker Education and Training Program, WETP awardees, federal partners, community-based organizations, workers and other stakeholders) and discussed elements of pre-incident and deployment-phase training for support personnel performing cleanup work. In addition, policies to best ensure that workers receive that training (in a language and a literacy level they understand) before being deployed to work were explored.

Agendas

• Spring 2011 Awardee Meeting Agenda (323KB)
• Spring 2011 Workshop Agenda (337KB)

Attendees

• Awardee Meeting and Workshop Attendees (88KB)

Workshop Report

• Workshop Report: Improving Safety and Health Training for Disaster Cleanup Workers - Lessons Learned from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2MB)

Presentations

Awardee Meeting:

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Time	Topic
1:00-2:00 p.m.	Welcome Joseph "Chip" Hughes, WETP, DERT, NIEHS
2:00-2:45 p.m.	NIEHS Update (2MB) Joseph "Chip" Hughes, Sharon D. Beard, Ted Outwater, Jim Remington, Kathy Ahlmark, Pam Clark and Wanda Boggs, NIEHS
2:45-3:00 p.m.	Clearinghouse Update Deborah Weinstock, NIEHS National Clearinghouse/MDB, Inc.
3:00-3:45 p.m.	SBIR Update (3MB) Dan Suhr, inXsol LLC Terrell Fulbright, JXT Applications, Inc. Kelly Clark, WisdomTools LLC, an Information In Place Company Chris Held, Metamedia Training International, Inc. Jonathan Kaye, Equipment Simulations LLC Cesar Bandera, Cell Podium, LLC
4:00-5:00 p.m.	Concurrent Sessions Business Official Meeting Grants Management (599KB) Pam Clark and Wanda Boggs, NIEHS Program Official Meeting Joseph "Chip" Hughes, Ted Outwater, Jim Remington, Kathy Ahlmark Minority Worker Training Meeting Minority Worker Training Program Breakout Session (1MB) Sharon D. Beard, NIEHS

Workshop:

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Time	Topic
8:30-8:45 a.m.	Welcome and Moment of Silence Kenneth Oldfield, Jefferson State Community College
8:45-9:15 a.m.	Workshop Overview NIEHS Response to the Gulf Oil Spill (1MB) Joseph "Chip" Hughes, NIEHS WETP DeepwaterHorizon Response - Training (1MB) Jim Remington, NIEHS WETP
9:15-9:30 a.m.	Oil Spill Response under the National Contingency Plan Compared with the Typical and More Likely Stafford Act/FEMA-led Response National Response System (398KB) John Ferris, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Directorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management
9:30-10:30 a.m.	Lessons Learned from Community Partnerships This panel consisted of representatives from community-based organizations who discussed their constituents' experiences with training, training materials and working in the field. Moderators: Sharon D. Beard, NIEHS WETP and Mary Williams, Dillard University, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) Grace Scire, Boat People SOS Gerald Scott, Clark Atlanta University, Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) Lessons Learned from Community Partnerships (367KB) Mary Williams, Dillard University, DSCEJ
10:50-11:50 a.m.	On-Site Lessons Learned This panel explored the issues and challenges encountered by cleanup workers and awardees at disaster sites, and at the training sites. Panel members shared stories of what they encountered on the "local" level. Moderators: Jim Remington, NIEHS WETP and David Coffey, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Deepwater Horizon: Unified Command’s Delivery of Response Worker Health and Safety Training (485KB) Tamara Joslin, BP Gary Kukal, Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (PETE) Bob Zales, II, National Association of Charterboat Operators
11:50 a.m.-12:15 p.m.	Evaluation Plan for the Oil Spill Response Training Evaluation Plan for the Gulf Oil Spill Response Training: A Multiple Stakeholder Approach (324KB) Sue Ann Sarpy, Sarpy and Associates, LLC
1:30-2:00 p.m.	The Importance of Protecting Worker and Community Health Following a Disaster Elizabeth (Lizzie) Grossman, Author
2:00-3:15 p.m.	Lessons Learned on Worker Training This panel examined the safety and health training courses provided to cleanup workers during the response of the oil spill. Discussion included topics on course content, instructors, classroom settings, language/literacy issues, etc. Moderator: Ted Outwater, NIEHS WETP The Dread Factor (91KB) Michael J. Burke, Freeman School of Business, Tulane University Cathy Cronin, OSHA Directorate of Training and Education OSHA Outreach Training Program OSHA's Campaign to Prevent Heat Illness in Outdoor Workers Dan Snyder, PETE
3:30-4:00 p.m.	Using the Contracting Mechanism to Ensure Workers Get Training. Donald Elisburg, NIEHS National Clearinghouse

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Time	Topic
8:30-8:55 a.m.	Keynote Linda Birnbaum, Director, NIEHS
8:55-9:50 a.m.	Medical Monitoring and Surveillance - Implementing Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance (ERHMS) This panel provided an overview and status of the ERHMS document, demonstrated the usefulness of collecting rosters and training records during the response and discussed some of the challenges to implementing ERHMS. Moderator: Aubrey Miller, NIEHS Emergency Responder Health Monitoring and Surveillance “ERHMS” (1MB) John Halpin, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Emergency Preparedness and Response Office Emergency Responder Health Monitoring & Surveillance:LESSONS (not yet?) LEARNED (1MB) Dave Newman, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH)
9:50-10:00 a.m.	Charge to Breakout Sessions
10:15-11:45 a.m.	Concurrent Breakout Sessions Site Specific, aka Just-in-Time Training: More than an Afterthought (976KB) Facilitated by Jim Remington, NIEHS WETP Communication and Coordination with the Local Community during Disasters Facilitated by Beverly Wright, Dillard University, DSCEJ, and Kenneth Oldfield, Jefferson State Community College Before the Disaster: Improving Cleanup Training (447KB) Facilitated by Bruce Lippy, The Lippy Group
11:50 a.m.- 12:10 p.m.	Report Back from Breakout Sessions
12:10-12:30 p.m.	Wrap Up and Adjourn

Suggested Readings from the Workshop

• Workshop Overview (313KB)
• Center for Progressive Reform, From Ship to Shore: Reforming the National Contingency Plan to Improve Protections for Oil Spill Cleanup Workers
• Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Self-Reported Health and Economic Impact Survey: An Analysis of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster in Seven Coastal Louisiana Communities
• OSHA, Training Marine Oil Spill Response Workers under OSHA's Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard
• President's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Final Report
• Sarpy and Associates, Gulf Oil Spill Evaluation (426KB)
• Zhang, Jing, Honors Thesis on Training in Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (590KB)
• Adding and editing courses in the WETP Curricula Catalog (51KB)
• Introduction to the WETP Curricula Catalog (1MB)