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项目摘要在第一阶段，元媒体培训与铁路工人危险材料培训计划合作，制作了名为从Graniteville吸取的教训的DVD培训工具原型。}第二阶段项目的具体目标是完成设计并开发完整的互动虚拟体验，以减少铁路工人、第一响应者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First Responder和铁路工人遵循系统的方法处理紧急事件，公共安全和工人的安全和健康将得到更好的保护，灾难可能会更快地减轻。这项研究与公共卫生有关，因为通过铁路运输危险材料的水平越来越高，而且目前缺乏足够的培训材料来应对此类事件的应急人员。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，在这些地区，严重泄漏的后果可能会导致环境破坏、严重伤害或死亡。2006年，美国发生了三起有记录的氯气罐车脱轨事件。该DVD将2005年南卡罗来纳州格兰尼特维尔发生的灾难性的南诺福克铁路脱轨事件作为一次便利的训练练习。这次碰撞释放了超过11000加仑的氯气，造成9人死亡，数百人受伤，数百名平民流离失所。我们结合了引人入胜的、逼真的危险材料事故交互式视频模拟、具有教育意义的三维计算机动画和团队练习，以生成一个有效的培训工具，成功地传授知识，如后续评估中所述。Metamedia对DVD技术的应用将利用DVD的独特功能，如高质量的运动视频、交互式分支和低成本的交付系统，将真实世界的模拟带入课堂。第二阶段的交付内容将是一个完整的DVD计划，提供长达4小时的内容，包括评估产生的建议、互动体验的其他组成部分以及教师和学生指南。4.4.7项目简介这项研究与公众健康有关，因为经由铁路运输危险物品的情况日益增加，而目前缺乏足够的训练教材，以应付此类事故的紧急救援人员。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，在这些地区，严重泄漏的后果可能会导致环境破坏、严重伤害或死亡。仅在前往饮用水和废水处理厂的途中就暴露于氯气运输，使居住在这些设施附近的2500多万美国人和100多万生活在铁路运输路线沿线城镇的美国人暴露。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《化学文摘局》报道，在实验室环境之外使用的化学品超过63,999种)。交通部监管运输中的3,800多种危险材料，如49 CFR所列。美国环保局列出了15种化学物质，占所有化学物质排放的三分之二。美国70%以上的危险材料是用铁路油罐车运输的。1《有毒火车和恐怖主义威胁》，保罗·奥伦，国家劳工学院，铁路工人危险材料培训，2007年4月。