title: [Development of a Crisis Management Manual for Occupational Health Experts].
abstract: When crises such as natural disasters or industrial accidents occur in workplaces, not only the workers who are injured, but also those who engage in emergency or recovery work may be exposed to various health hazards. We developed a manual to enable occupational health (OH) experts to prevent health hazards. The manual includes detailed explanations of the characteristics and necessary actions for each need in the list of "OH Needs During Crisis Management" developed after an analysis of eight cases in our previous research. We changed the endings of explanatory sentences so that users could learn how often each need occurred in these eight cases. We evaluated the validity of the manual using two processes: 1) Providing the manual to OH physicians during an industrial accident; 2) Asking crisis management experts to review the manual. We made improvements based on their feedback and completed the manual. The manual includes explanations about 99 OH needs, and users can learn how and what to do for each need during various crisis cases. Because additional OH needs may occur in other crises, it is necessary to collect information about new cases and to improve the comprehensiveness of the manual continuously. It is critical that this crisis management manual be available when a crisis occurs. We need to inform potential users of the manual through various media, as well as by posting it on our website.
authors.affiliation: Occupational Health Training Center, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
authors.forename: Juri
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
authors.forename: Seiichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tateishi
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Igarashi
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ide
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.forename: Tatsuhiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hara
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobashi
authors.forename: Megumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Megumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawashima
authors.forename: Takeo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mori
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational; D004190:Disasters; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D054538:Occupational Health Physicians; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D012308:Risk Management; D017751:Safety Management; D017132:Workplace