NIOSH Chief: Key WTC Lesson Is Need For Prospective Roster Of Response Workers

Lessons learned from the disaster response to the World Trade Center attack have helped NIOSH and other agencies, including OSHA, in their responses to large-scale events such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, NIOSH chief John Howard tells Inside OSHA Online in an exclusive interview. A key lesson, he says, is the need to prospectively develop a roster of workers, which he notes was done for the Deepwater oil spill response. “We wanted to make sure we know who they were and how to get a hold of them …. [if] medical monitoring is indicated,” he says, pointing the the need for an adva