[Original] The important role of personal protective equipment in derivative disasters

News Events: On May 27th, 2017, Netease News, a group of "The Injury of 9/11: 3,700 Rescuers Have Cancer" was shocking. A firefighter in New York has been in the "9·11" period. Rescued the wounded on the ground and died of leukemia. It is worth noting that the latest official data show that more than 3,700 people involved in ground rescue, clean firefighters, police and sanitation workers were diagnosed with cancer, of which 2110 were firefighters, and various figures are still rising. In addition, this figure does not include ordinary residents with cancer.

When disasters occur, the first thing we think of is to rescue and save lives, but it is easy to ignore the fact that primary disasters may have personal protection for surrounding residents and firefighters, police, sanitation workers and other occupations involved in disaster relief.

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According to a person familiar with "9·11", it was not until ten minutes later that the power was cut off and the smoke came, she realized that something really went wrong. Three months after that, Chinatown’s dust was flying all over the sky. “The doors and windows were closed, and the windows were cleaned every day. The tables on the windows were still dusty.”

Two hundred high-rise buildings have 1.2 million tons of high-strength and high-density building materials burning, more than 50,000 computers in high-rise buildings, and 300-400 tons of asbestos in the North Tower. What else is in the air besides the published substances? A senior investigator who dared to question the interviewed the investigators of the American Geographical Society and presented a sample of dust samples different from the US government. He wrote in the article: "The dust in the city center contains a lot of asbestos. Lead, rayon and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons have high strength corrosivity and air alkalinity is equivalent to household detergents."

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What is more shocking than the disaster is the misconduct and inaction of the authorities, the ignorance and disguise of the derivative disasters, and the neglect and indifference to the safety of the workers.

More than "9·11", what we remember is the "8·12 Tianjin Binhai New Area Explosion Accident" in 2015. After the accident, there were media reports saying: "The rain water turns the residual cyanide on the ground that has not been cleaned up in the core of the explosion into hydrogen cyanide, which may escape under acidic conditions and affect the surrounding environment..."

In the face of derivative disasters, human reactions may be delayed or disguised by external influences, but animals will not. Wang Jianmin, secretary-general of the Tianjin Binhai New Area Wetland Protection Volunteers Association, discovered that after a two-day explosion, a migratory bird habitat of about 6 kilometers northeast of the explosion point was originally blasted to the south for 20,000 water birds in the south in November. After the traces are all gone. In the season when it was supposed to be the most birds, it was almost gone within two days of the explosion.

We are not ignoring the disasters that have already occurred, but we are standing on the standpoint of the laborers and paying attention to the disaster-prone disasters.

First barrier: respiratory protection

Whether it is an explosion, a fire, or an earthquake, these shocking disasters are often inevitable. After the disaster, the importance of respiratory protection is also a consensus. Anti-virus masks, dust masks, etc. are all spare parts. At the same time of disaster relief, we must clearly understand the importance of respiratory protection. More and more things show that the hardest hit areas of disasters are that respiratory protection has not been done or not done, and appropriate and effective respiratory protective equipment has been chosen. Effective respiratory protection is the primary task to eliminate the disaster.

Second barrier: full body protection

Protective clothing, safety shoes, safety helmets, these daily labor insurance products must be clear in the crisis. One of the things I encountered when using safety shoes in the “8·12 Tianjin Binhai New Area Explosion Accident” I remember that many safety shoe companies contacted the disaster relief command center the first time after the disaster and expressed their willingness to donate the products produced to the disaster relief personnel. The command center made a simple analysis on the site and said that due to the chemical leakage at the site and the high temperature after the explosion, the safety shoes used by the disaster relief personnel on the site have strict functional requirements. Therefore, the safety shoes meet the requirements for on-site use. Was sent to the disaster area.

Personal Protection Tips: Standing First Aid Kit

One of the most special things in many American families is the first aid kit. Because many American parents want their children to understand the truth: life and death are critical, if there is a little water on hand, a little medicine, a little bright, then maybe the fate will be completely different. Many people don't know that September 10 is not only the Teacher's Day, but also the World First Aid Day. There is a lack of first-aid knowledge in China. In Shenzhen, only one out of every 100 people has received first-aid training. In Hong Kong, the ratio is 1:30, Singapore is 1:5, and one-third of the population in the United States has received first-aid training. Half of Australia's population is higher than the United States. In many countries and regions, first aid is a designated course for primary and secondary schools. In China, first-aid training has not received enough attention from the public. Many industries with high-risk accidents also lack the awareness to train first-aid skills. This loss has also contributed to the tragedy to a certain extent. The existence of a first aid kit is a gospel. Our labor insurance industry also has a very good first-aid kit manufacturer, providing safety protection for the professional practitioners in need and providing protection for the general public.

It has been 15 years since the September 11 attacks in 2001, but the trauma it has caused to American society still exists. In addition to causing more than 2,000 deaths, this incident has caused a considerable number of victims to die of toxic chemicals released on the spot in the following years. Rescuers who rushed to the scene at the first time of the incident, staff who cleaned up afterwards, and many people living nearby were suffering from various diseases due to exposure to toxic substances.

Disasters are unpredictable, and disasters caused by disasters are completely preventable. The timely and correct use of personal protective equipment plays an extremely important role in preventing the occurrence of derivative disasters. I hope this article will attract more attention from relevant departments and enterprises. . The disaster will not happen because of our prayers, but the damage will be reduced because of our increased awareness of protection.

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