STORY: Confined space rescue expert Alan Veasey, MPH, an instructor with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR) Workplace Safety Training Program. Veasey trains firefighters, emergency personnel, industries, agencies and unions in all aspects of confined space rescues, hazardous material emergency response and use of incident management command systems.
WHO: Veasey, training manager, firefighter/EMT and instructor with the UAB Center for Labor, Education and Research Workplace Safety Training Program, teaches emergency response teams basic confined space rescue; rescue team organization; and command, planning, operations and logistics of incident management systems.
WHAT: "What they are dealing with is a mass-casualty incident with a cross discipline scenario: emergency teams tending to the injured, hazardous materials responders working at the site because of residual fuel or combustion by-products and requirement for heavy-rescue crews to cut through the structure to rescue any survivors. This is a huge challenge to manage all of the personnel and resources involved in responding because it is such a massive event."
CALL: Jennifer Park, UAB Media Relations, 205-934-3888 or [email protected]. After hours, call 205-934-3411 and ask for the Media Relations person on call.
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