Products and Services

NAVY ENVIRONMENTAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE UNIT 7

STANDARD PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Safety and Occupational Health

• Industrial Hygiene (IH) surveys
• Technical assistance in workplace evaluations, NAVSOH program reviews, ventilation assessments and noise surveys
• Development of exposure and workplace monitoring plans
• Respiratory protection program support and fit testing
• Hearing conservation program support
• IH and medical guidance for activities during spill events and other environmental emergencies

Force Health Protection

• Reach-back preventive medicine/public health support for units and providers to include ships, operational units and MTFs
• Technical and pre-deployment assistance including force health protection recommendations to operational units and medical personnel; assistance with medical briefs
• Regional or country specific health threat assessment and info, public health issues, and occupational health and safety support

Environmental Health

• Technical assistance on Medical Readiness Inspections (MRI) and recommendations for compliance with Environmental Health standards
• Technical assistance with Shipboard Sanitation Control Program, issuance of Shipboard Sanitation Certificates
• Expeditionary water lab for contingency operations
• Consultation on environmental and workplace heat stress

Disease Control and Prevention

• Epidemiologic investigations of disease outbreaks, environmental/occupational health hazards, and disease/injury risks
• Immunizations and chemoprophylaxis guidance
• Coordinate area-wide disease surveillance

Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

• Guidance on chemical repellent treatment of uniforms/clothing
• Technical assistance on installation vector surveillance including identification of insect species
• Technical assistance on pest management and disease vector surveillance and control
• Review of requisitions for non-standard and restricted use pesticides/equipment for shipboard and contingency operations
• Review of facility IPM plans in coordination with NAVFAC

Education and Training

• Preventive Medicine and Occupational Health-related training courses
• NAVSOH training for ships and submarines home-ported in or transiting the area

Health Promotion and Wellness

• Technical assistance/consultation on Navy health promotion and wellness programs, support in Green H and Blue H
• Health promotion and wellness products, supporting tools and resources

GLOBAL HEALTH ENGAGEMENT PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

• Theater Security Cooperation missions to include Exercise support, mil-to-mil engagements and train the trainer
• Support to Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief (HA/DR) missions
• Occupational and Environmental Health Site Assessment (OEHSA)
• JDeployable rapid response Preventive Medicine support