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1 Advanced Personal Protective Equipment Challenges in Protecting First Responders Conference first Responders October 16 18, 2005 The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center Blacksburg, Virginia NPPTL VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

2 Calling All First Responders! Who Should Attend Local police, firefighters, emergency medical professionals, representatives from fire and rescue, police, EMS, government, industry, PPE manufacturers, and PPE end users are encouraged to attend this important and timely conference. Guest Speakers Plenary Speaker: The Honorable George W. Foresman, Assistant to the Governor for Commonwealth Preparedness, Office of Commonwealth Preparedness, State of Virginia Metamorphosis: The Transformation in First Response Featured Luncheon Speaker: Richard M. Duffy, Assistant to the General President, International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Challenges in Personal Protective Equipment Performance Featured Luncheon Speaker: Philip Mattson, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate Standards for Homeland Security Science and Technology America s first line of defense and protection in any terrorist attack or disaster situation is the first responder community local police, firefighters, and emergency medical professionals. When properly trained and equipped, first responders have the greatest potential to save lives and limit casualties from these unpredictable events. The Advanced Personal Protective Equipment: Challenges in Protecting First Responders Conference has been created as a forum to discuss and share information relevant to this important group. The conference consists of a variety of workshops and presentations in the areas of disaster response and personal protective equipment. This event is a unique opportunity in the southeast and mid-atlantic region for first responders and those who work to protect them to discover the latest innovations in equipment technology, confer on new industry trends and share potential solutions to PPE issues with other agencies and disaster/emergency personnel. The conference is presented by the Auditory Systems Laboratory in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, with major sponsorship from the National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). NIOSH provides national and world leadership to prevent work-related illness, injury, disability, and death by gathering information, conducting scientific research, and translating the knowledge gained into products and services. NIOSH's mission is critical to the health and safety of every American worker. For More Information Conference Co-Chairs Jeff Lancaster, Ph.D. (jlancast@vt.edu) and John Casali, Ph.D. (jcasali@vt.edu) Conference Manager Atul Deshmukh, M.S. (deshmukh@vt.edu)

3 Location and Lodging The conference will be held at The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center, a beautiful new facility located on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. Lodging in this facility is at a special conference rate of $95 per night. All participants are welcome to stay at The Inn at Virginia Tech. All conference activities, meals, and social functions will be held at this hotel. For lodging reservations call (540) Identify yourself as a participant in the First Responders Conference to receive the special lodging rate. Rooms will be held at the special rate until September 16. Continuing Education Units Participants attending two of the three workshops on Sunday are eligible to receive a certificate for.6 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Attendees must pre-register for CEUs when they submit their registrations (CEUs will not be awarded after the conference). sunday Sunday Workshops Workshops are held concurrently on Sunday, October 16, during the morning and repeated in the afternoon. Participants may select two of the three workshops to attend. Sessions are from 9:00 am 12:00 noon and 1:30 4:30 pm. Using Agent-Based Simulation for Input Assessment of a Disaster Response reenacts the 1994 Northridge, CA earthquake as modeled by FEMA s loss estimation program (HAZUS). A simulation of the event focusing on the initial assessment and response phases is presented. Donald E. Brown and Charles D. Robinson, University of Virginia Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings instructs first responders on current topics of concern including terrorist ideologies and the threat of energetic materials, recognition and identification of energetic materials, and proper response to bombing incidents. This workshop is the performance level version of a full IRTB course sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security s (DHS) Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness (SLGCP). A certificate of completion from New Mexico Tech will be issued to each attendee. Lt. Mark Sisson, Christiansburg, VA, Police Department What Responders Need to Know About NIOSH Approved Respirators discusses respirator approval standards, CBRN respirator approval testing, respirator use and maintenance programs, and the NIOSH SCBA firefighter investigation program. National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health/National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory Staff (NIOSH/NPPTL) Following the workshops, a reception will be held at the Inn at Virginia Tech.

4 monday Plenary Speaker: The Honorable George W. Foresman, Assistant to the Governor for Commonwealth Preparedness, Office of Commonwealth Preparedness, State of Virginia Metamorphosis: The Transformation in First Response Monday, October 17 8:00 9:00am 9:00 10:15am Presentations on Disaster Response Management 1. National Firefighter Technology Resource Center presents the Center for Technology Commercialization, Public Safety Technology Center (CTC-PSTC), who developed a comprehensive inventory of firefighter needs and technologies categories. Thomas J. Kennedy, Center for Technology Commercialization Public Safety Technology Center 2. Protecting Public Safety and Rescue Personnel from Vaccine-Preventable Hepatitis focuses on the need for vaccinations of Emergency Medical Service (EMS), Disaster, and Water Rescue workers against Hepatitis A and B in addition to the Body Substance Isolation (BSI) protocols that now exist. Gerald M. Dworkin, Lifesaving Resources, Inc. 3. Emergency Planning and Response in a University Environment describes emergency planning at colleges and universities, and the need to provide interactive discussions between localities, response organizations, and the educational institution(s) toward that end. Zack Adams, Virginia Tech Environmental Health and Safety Services (EHSS) 10:15 10:45am Refreshment Break with Exhibits and Posters 10:45am 12:30pm Presentations on PPE Standards for Emergency Responders 1. NFPA Fire and Emergency Services Protective Clothing and Standards Program describes and outlines the elements of the NFPA Protective Clothing and Standards Program, which seeks to protect first responders through standard requirements for entities that manufacture protective clothing (e.g., coats, coveralls, trousers, hoods). Bruce Teele, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 2. What Has Changed in the NFPA Hazardous Materials Protective Clothing Standards? provides a summary of the changes made to NFPA clothing standards and the process by which the changes were adopted. James P. Zeigler, DuPont Personal Protection 3. NIOSH Best Practices Functional Safety Guidance: What Is It and How Does it Apply to Personal Protective Equipment? describes NIOSH-NPPTL s effort to develop a nine-part series of best practice recommendations for achieving functional safety of systems, focusing on the equipment s entire life cycle instead of only performance testing of finished equipment/software. Joe Waters, Tom Fisher, Janet Flynt; Underwriters Laboratories (UL), CDC/NIOSH/ NPPTL, Safety Requirements, Inc. 4. A Practical Tool for Heat Stress Risk Assessment and Planning discusses additions to the Wet Bulb, Globe and Temperature (WBGT) Method of heat stress management. WBGT utilizes key factors that control heat stress (e.g., heat, humidity, work level, clothing) to assess heat stress risk. The addition of psychrometry, historical weather, and updated clothing factors to the WBGT in

5 monday an effort to provide a more comprehensive analysis of heat stress risk is presented. James P. Zeigler, DuPont Personal Protection 12:30 2:00pm Lunch Featured Luncheon Speaker Richard M. Duffy, Assistant to the General President, International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Challenges in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Performance 2:00 3:40pm Presentations on Human/PPE Interface: Issues and Solutions 1. Physiological Changes Associated with Fire Exposure in Firefighters is a physiological response assessment in firefighters in operationally-relevant settings. Jonathan Kaufman, Naval Air Systems Command Pax River 2. Ergonomics Protocol for Next Generation Structural Firefighter Personal Protective Equipment Evaluation presents the need to focus on the ergonomics of ensemble design and use in the protocols that exist for ensemble evaluation. Provides an evaluation tool for ensembles. Steven L. Johnson, University of Arkansas 3. Developing PPE Systems: Salient Issues Faced by Small and Large Manufacturers describes the issues experienced by both small and large manufacturers of first responder personal protective systems in the systems development process. Jeff A. Lancaster, John G. Casali, Atul Deshmukh, Virginia Tech 4. Dissipation of Oxygen from Outward Leak of Closed-Circuit Breathing Device presents the results of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study of O 2 dissipation into the environment surrounding a respirator face piece towards the perceived risk by firefighters of fire ignition when wearing closed-circuit respirators (that add O 2 from a tank of pure oxygen after CO 2 scrubbing) in environments containing open flame and high radiant heat. Kathryn M. Butler, Rodney A. Bryant, John G. Kovac, NIST/NPPTL 3:40 4:00pm Refreshment Break with Exhibits and Posters 4:00 5:30pm Presentations on Novel PPE Ensembles 1. A Lightweight Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus with Integrated Full Body Cooling describes the development of an open-cycle SCBA which uses cryogenic air (instead of compressed air) at -300 o F such that the air breathed becomes a heat sink for the metabolic heat produced by the user as well as environmental heat. Harold L. Gier, Supercritical Thermal Systems, Inc. 2. Advanced Chemical/Biological Protective Firefighter Turnout Suit describes research efforts on into a next-generation firefighter turnout suit that incorporates advanced materials technologies for protection against heat and flame as well as toxic chemical and biological agents. Roger L. Barker, Anthoney S. Deaton, North Carolina State University 3. Next Generation Structural Firefighting PPE with Chemical/Biological Protection describes the development/testing of a new structural firefighting PPE ensemble with enhanced chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) protective qualities. Jeffrey O. Stull, Richard M. Duffy, International Personnel Protection, International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF)

6 tuesday Tuesday, October 18 8:00 10:00 am Presentations on Electronics in PPE 1. Design of a Wearable Electronics Package for Firefighter Monitoring describes the design of an electronic lifeline system integrated with a firefighter s PPE. The system monitors vital signs and the environment of active firefighters and can transmit data to an incident command center. Alton G. Dunn, Todd Leonhardt, Michael Masterman, Extreme Endeavors 2. Embedded Personal Location for First Responders describes a secondgeneration personal location system (PLS) that does not require GPS or RF location devices, and instead relies on personal networks (wireless computer networks) and body-distributed sensing (direct coupling of sensors to relevant body locations). Analysis of the system in both indoor and outdoor tasks is presented and compared to ground truth information from GPS or loop-closure experiments. Scott Thayer, Carnegie Mellon University 3. First Responder Thermal Imaging Performance Evaluation Research at NIST presents the need for standardized performance metrics for users to use in making purchasing decisions. Francine Amon, Anthony Hamins, Nelson Bryner, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 4. Use of Combination Hearing Protectors and Communication Earpieces for First Responders describes the application of a specialized hearing protection system to ensure effective transmission and understanding of critical information. Jeremie Voix, Sonomax Hearing Healthcare, Inc. 10:00 10:30am Refreshment Break with Exhibits and Posters 10:30am 12:00pm Presentations on Test Methods for PPE 1. Thermal Protective Performance Test for Firefighter Protective Clothing describes development of a physics-based model incorporating moisture transport into a computational tool called the Protective Clothing Performance Simulator (PCPS) that evaluates the thermal response of clothing. Kuldeep R. Prasad, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 2. Development of a Test Method for Measuring Stored Energy in Firefighter Turnouts describes a laboratory test method for measuring stored thermal energy in firefighter turnout materials, and presents the results of a study designed to show the effect of thermal exposures and material variables on stored energy phenomena. Anthoney S. Deaton, Roger L. Barker, North Carolina State University 3. A Passive Aerosol Sampler for Evaluation of Personal Protective Ensembles describes the development of a passive aerosol sampler for the evaluation of protective ensembles using small magnet-containing samplers that passively collect iron oxide. William P. King, Pengfei Gao, NIOSH/NPPTL 12:00 2:00pm Closing Luncheon Featured Luncheon Speaker Philip Mattson, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate Standards for Homeland Security Science and Technology

7 How To Register The first responders and public fees include conference materials, workshops and reception on Sunday, and refreshment breaks and lunch on Monday and Tuesday. To register, visit edu/appe/ or return the attached form by October 7. Registrations received after this date should be confirmed with the registrar at (540) to verify space availability. Workshops will be presented as half-day sessions and repeated morning and afternoon. When registering, please select the two Sunday workshops you wish to attend. NIOSH has generously provided funding allowing first responders to register at the special reduced fee of $25. Please direct any questions to Jeff Lancaster, Ph.D., by e- mail: or mail: Virginia Tech, 250 Durham Hall (0118), Blacksburg, VA Cancellation and Refund Policy: Requests for refunds will be honored when received seven calendar days prior to the program. However, another person may be substituted at any time for this program. A $25 administrative fee will be deducted for cancellations. In the unlikely event that this program is cancelled or postponed due to insufficient enrollments or unforeseen circumstances, the university will fully refund registration fees but cannot be held responsible for any other expenses, including cancellation or change charges assessed by airlines, hotels, travel agencies, or other organizations. Register Today! Advanced Personal Protective Equipment Challenges in Protecting First Responders Conference October 16 18, 2005 Please print or type. Complete a separate form for each person. Or register on-line at: Name Title Organization or Affiliation *Organization s FID No. Address City State Zip Daytime Phone No. Fax Signature Fees: First Responders (e.g., fire, police, EMS) Only: $25 Badge or Identification No. Commanding Officer s Name Commanding Officer s Phone No. General Public: $260 Sunday Workshops ONLY: $150 (includes reception) CEUs and certificate for Sunday workshops: $30 Guest/s for Sun. Reception: $35 Name of Guest/s Check the two Sunday workshops you will attend and circle am or pm, as preferred: Using Agent-Based Simulation for Input Assessment of a Disaster Response am or pm Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings am or pm What Responders Need to Know About NIOSH Approved Respirators am or pm Method of Payment: Check Enclosed. Make payable to: Treasurer, Va. Tech Credit Card: MasterCard VISA AmEx Credit card # Exp. date Name of Cardholder Return by October 7 to: Conference Registrar, Continuing and Professional Education, 702 University City Boulevard, Virginia Tech, Mail Code 0272, Blacksburg, VA phone (540) fax (540) VT/170/0705/5M/ *FID number necessary to process a refund payable to any company, agency, or government. FOR OFFICE USE ONLY RECEIVED AMNT: CHK#: DPST: DATE:

8 VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY Continuing and Professional Education 702 University City Boulevard Mail Code 0272 Blacksburg, VA first Responders Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Blacksburg, VA Permit No. 28 attention