Health Hazard Evaluation of Deepwater Horizon Response Workers HETA 2010-0115. Interim Report No. 9A - Results of Bulk Sample Collections. Interim Report No. 9B - Health Symptom Survey Findings for Response Workers Assigned to Plaquemines Branch Incident Command System, Louisiana, June 2010. Interim Report No. 9C - Assessing Psychosocial and Work Organization Issues among Deepwater Horizon Response Workers in Venice, Louisiana, August 2010

摘要

On May 28, 2010, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request for a Health Hazard Evaluation from BP regarding concerns of potential occupational exposures during Deepwater Horizon oil spill response work in the Gulf of Mexico. On June 2, 2010, a team of NIOSH industrial hygienists and medical officers arrived in Louisiana to begin on-site evaluations of potential occupational exposures and health symptoms. Assessments were conducted during a variety of oil spill response work activities, including in-situ burning of surface oil, dispersant releases, oil skimming and booming, and decontaminating boom and vessels. During the course of the assessments, industrial hygiene sampling was conducted to determine specific compounds to which workers may be exposed as well as their levels of exposure. The majority of the sampling was comprised of personal breathing zone (PBZ) and area air samples during activities of concern. Because of concerns about possible acute health effects from exposures on vessels performing oil cleanup, NIOSH investigators collected health symptom surveys from response workers. This report describes the results for workers surveyed from June 7-June 22, 2010 in the Plaquemines Branch Incident Command System ( ICS); formally also known as Venice Louisiana Field Operations Branch. In August 2010, NIOSH investigators traveled to Venice, Louisiana, to conduct focus groups on work organization and job stress with Safety Professionals involved in the Deepwater Horizon response.