Lessons Learned from Graniteville - Phase II

Graniteville 的经验教训 - 第二阶段

• 批准号: 7471603
• 负责人: THOMAS H HELD
• 金额: $ 15.88万
• 依托单位: METAMEDIA TRAINING INTERNATIONAL, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-01 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7471603
• 关键词: Accounting; Acute; Advanced Development; American; Area; Awareness; Cessation of life; Chemicals; Chlorine; Cities; Classification; Communities; Compatible; Computers; Daily; Development; Disasters; District of Columbia; Educational Curriculum; Emergency Situation; Environment; Evaluation; Exercise; Exposure to; Hazardous Substances; Health; Health Personnel; Hospitalization; Hour; Human Resources; Individual; Injury; International; Iraq; Knowledge; Laboratories; Learning; Life; Manuals; Motion; Operative Surgical Procedures; Personal Computers; Persons; Phase; Plants; Police officer; Property; Public Health; Public Sector; Railroads; Readiness; Recommendation; Reporting; Research; Risk; Role; Route; Rupture; Safety; Security; Services; Shipping; Ships; Students; System; Technology; Training; Training Programs; Transportation; Travel; United States; United States Environmental Protection Agency; United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Work; abstracting; animation; base; chemical release; chlorine gas; college; cost; deoxyhypusine synthase; design; drinking water; emergency service responder; experience; improved; injured; innovation; instructor; programs; prototype; simulation; tool; virtual; wasting; water treatment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 4.4.6 Project Summary Abstract During Phase I, MetaMedia Training teamed with the Rail Workers Hazardous Materials Training Program to produce the prototype DVD training tool entitled }Lessons Learned from Graniteville.} The specific aim of the Phase II project is to complete the design and develop a full interactive virtual experience that will reduce the risk faced by Rail Workers, First Responders, and the community when dealing with incidents involving hazardous materials transported by rail. If First Responders and Rail Workers follow a systematic approach to handling emergency incidents, public safety and workers' safety and health will be better protected and disasters may be mitigated more rapidly. This research is relevant to public health due to the increasing level of hazardous materials being transported via rail, and the current lack of adequate training materials for emergency personnel responding to such incidents. Approximately 800,000 shipments of hazardous substances travel daily throughout the United States, frequently through densely populated areas where the consequences of an acute release could result in environmental damage, severe injury, or death. In 2006 there were three recorded instances of chlorine tank car derailments in the United States. The DVD brings to life as a facilitated training exercise the catastrophic Norfolk Southern railroad derailment that occurred in Graniteville, SC in 2005. The collision released over 11,000 gallons of chlorine gas, causing nine deaths, injuring hundreds, and displacing hundreds more civilians. We have incorporated compelling and realistic interactive video simulations of hazardous materials incidents, instructive three dimensional computer animations, and engaging team exercises to produce an effective training tool that successfully transfers knowledge as noted in the subsequent evaluation. MetaMedia's application of DVD technology will take advantage of the unique features of DVD, such as high-quality motion video, interactive branching, and low-cost delivery systems to bring real-world simulations into the classroom. The deliverables for Phase II will be a completed DVD program providing up to 4 hours of content, including recommendations resulting from the evaluation, additional components of the interactive experience, and instructor and student guides. 4.4.7 Project Narrative This research is relevant to public health due to the increasing level of hazardous materials being transported via rail, and the current lack of adequate training materials for emergency personnel responding to such incidents. Approximately 800,000 shipments of hazardous substances travel daily throughout the United States, frequently through densely populated areas where the consequences of an acute release could result in environmental damage, severe injury, or death. Exposure to chlorine gas shipments alone, traveling to drinking water and waste water treatment plants, exposes more than 25 million Americans who live near these facilities and one million more living in cities and towns along the rail delivery routes.1 DHS and security experts continue to warn of the risk for industrial chemicals used by terrorists as weapons of mass destruction. Terrorists have attacked and blown up several trucks carrying chlorine in Iraq. There are over 63,999 chemicals used outside the laboratory environment as reported by the Chemical Abstracts Service). DOT regulates over 3,800 hazardous materials in transportation, as listed in 49 CFR. EPA lists 15 chemicals that account for two-thirds of all chemical releases. Over 70% of all hazardous materials in the United States are shipped in railroad tank cars. 1 Toxic Trains and the Terrorist Threat, Paul Orun, National Labor College, Rail Workers Hazardous Materials Training, April 2007.

描述（由申请人提供）： 4.4.6 项目总结 摘要 在第一阶段，MetaMedia Training 与铁路工人危险材料培训计划合作，制作了名为“Graniteville 的经验教训”的原型 DVD 培训工具。第二阶段项目的具体目标是完成设计和开发完整的交互式虚拟体验，以减少铁路工人、急救人员和社区在处理涉及铁路运输危险材料的事件时面临的风险。如果急救人员和铁路工作人员遵循系统的方法来处理紧急事件，公共安全和工人的安全与健康将得到更好的保护，灾难可能会更快地得到缓解。由于通过铁路运输的危险材料数量不断增加，并且目前缺乏足够的应急人员应对此类事件的培训材料，因此这项研究与公共卫生相关。每天大约有 800,000 批危险物质在美国各地运输，经常经过人口稠密的地区，这些地区的急性释放后果可能会导致环境破坏、严重伤害或死亡。 2006年，美国发生了三起氯罐车脱轨事件。该 DVD 作为一场辅助训练演习，生动地再现了 2005 年在南卡罗来纳州格兰尼特维尔发生的灾难性诺福克南方铁路出轨事故。这次碰撞释放出超过 11,000 加仑的氯气，造成 9 人死亡、数百人受伤，并导致数百名平民流离失所。我们结合了令人信服且逼真的有害物质事件交互式视频模拟、指导性三维计算机动画和参与团队练习，以产生有效的培训工具，成功地传递随后评估中提到的知识。 MetaMedia 对 DVD 技术的应用将利用 DVD 的独特功能，例如高质量的动态视频、交互式分支和低成本的传输系统，将真实世界的模拟带入课堂。第二阶段的交付成果将是一个完整的 DVD 程序，提供长达 4 小时的内容，包括评估结果的建议、互动体验的其他组成部分以及教师和学生指南。 4.4.7 项目叙述 由于通过铁路运输的危险材料数量不断增加，并且目前缺乏足够的针对此类事件的应急人员的培训材料，因此本研究与公共卫生相关。每天大约有 800,000 批危险物质在美国各地运输，经常经过人口稠密的地区，这些地区的急性释放后果可能会导致环境破坏、严重伤害或死亡。仅运送到饮用水和废水处理厂的氯气运输就使居住在这些设施附近的超过 2,500 万美国人以及居住在铁路沿线城镇的 100 万人受到暴露。1 国土安全部和安全专家继续警告恐怖分子将工业化学品用作大规模杀伤性武器的风险。恐怖分子在伊拉克袭击并炸毁了几辆运载氯气的卡车。据化学文摘社报道，有超过 63,999 种化学品在实验室环境之外使用。 DOT 对运输中的 3,800 多种危险材料进行监管，如 49 CFR 中所列。 EPA 列出了 15 种化学品，占所有化学品排放量的三分之二。美国 70% 以上的危险材料是通过铁路罐车运输的。 1 有毒列车和恐怖主义威胁，Paul Orun，国家劳动学院，铁路工人危险材料培训，2007 年 4 月。