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Abstract Malaria and other vector-borne diseases can greatly impact industrial activities caused by excess lost work time and reduced production output to compromised quality of life of employees. In response, a major development project in Papua New Guinea commissioned the design and implementation of an integrated vector control program (VCP) and complementary pest control activities on site. The steps and tools required to implement a comprehensive vector control program spanning a large area is outlined. To develop a properly scaled, comprehensive health intervention program, a site risk assessment followed by detailed site-specific program scoping including staff, training, equipment and consumables, transportation needs, and work and storage facilities is an essential first step. Pre-construction building design and standards should be established to reduce vector-human contact and determine locations for accommodations to minimize disease risk. Worker awareness (induction, toolbox sessions, etc.) and personal protection measures (e.g. permethrin-treated clothing, topical repellents and insecticide aerosols) must be freely available. Various anti-mosquito capabilities combining environmentally sound adult and larval control methods are available and used in the most effective and efficient manner possible. Larval mosquito control, combines โsource reductionโ practices, larval habitat modification and chemical applications where applicable. Use of biological/bio-rational products are directed at specific mosquito habitats. For adult mosquitoes, conservative use of insecticides applied as space sprays are a primary means of control. Enhancing cost-efficiency and program success is based on real-time evidence from temporally-relevant monitoring of vector populations and disease occurrence in workforce. These procedures represent an evidence-based, responsive VCP with a public health pest control component included. For truly sustainable integrated vector management program, a systematic transference of technical and administrative capacity to the national workforce is required. Since the program's inception the site has been effectively free of transmission of malaria, dengue and other endemic insect-borne disease within the control area.
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Sustainability/Social Responsibility (1.00)
- Data Science & Engineering Analytics > Information Management and Systems (1.00)
- Health, Safety, Environment & Sustainability > Health > Infectious diseases (HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis) (0.72)
- Management > Strategic Planning and Management > Benchmarking and performance indicators (0.46)
Baseline Health Survey in a Sparsely Populated Part of Papua New Guinea
Viliani, Francesca (International SOS) | Curtis, Peter (International SOS) | Stone, Michael (International SOS) | Kotapu, Sylvester (International SOS) | Hooper, Dick (International SOS) | Martin, Michael (InterOil)
Abstract The description of baseline information about the environmental, social, economic and health conditions existing in the project area is one of the key objectives of an impact assessment. It is also one of the key information pieces needed by project proponents and decision makers, in order to assess and monitor project interaction with the local context. The health baseline always relies on qualitative and quantitative data and is ideally compiled using primary and secondary data. The InterOil Baseline Health Survey (BLHS) generated several primary health indicators and provided a point-in-time assessment of the health status of people living in villages within the InterOil project area in Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). It attempted to describe and quantify the type and magnitude of health-related problems affecting the catchment population, as well as identify the relevant determinants of health and potential health risks faced by the current and future population. The choice of the health indicators to include in a health baseline was project and context specific. This was an issue addressed at the beginning of the impact assessment process and it was developed taking in consideration the future use of those indicators for monitoring purposes. The health baseline information not only assisted the identification of the potential impacts, but most importantly defined recommendations and community health outreach programs as part of the project management plan. This plan can then be monitored using health indicators comparable with the ones included in the health baseline. Finally, the paper shows thatspecial attention should be given to the use of secondary data to infer any meaningful conclusion about the health status of a specific community. In the case of InterOil if no BLHS would have been conducted, then the existing secondary data for malaria and filariasis would not have been indicative of the communities and much higher than what isfound in reality with risky consequences for the project.
- Health & Medicine > Therapeutic Area > Infections and Infectious Diseases (1.00)
- Health & Medicine > Therapeutic Area > Immunology (1.00)
- Health & Medicine > Consumer Health (1.00)
- Energy > Oil & Gas > Upstream (1.00)
Comprehensive HIA of Greenfield Gas Project in Papua New Guinea
Viliani, Francesca (International SOS) | Curtis, Peter (International SOS) | Guibert, Philippe (International SOS) | Hooper, Dick (International SOS) | Martin, Michael (InterOil)
Abstract The current paper provides a narrative of the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of a greenfield project located in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. HIA, in the context of this project, is presented as one of the processes that a company needs to go through in order to develop a site-specific Health Management System (HMS). The objective of a narrative is to tell a story; in this case the story describes how the HIA was carried out. Many guidelines on HIA exist and HIA reports are available. However, very little information is published and presented about the challenges encountered during the delivery, as well as about the management issues that need to be addressed in order to deliver an HIA in remote regions. Up to now we have focused on creating rules and structures for HIA; however, not enough attention has been given to their implementation, and even less to the consequences for not complying with the recommendations. Furthermore, impact assessments are usually described on their own or within the life cycle of the project. However, there is little information on how this process links with the other ones in the development of a site-specific Health Management System and which kind of choices are made in this regard. Projects always interact with the external environment where they are located. This environment poses health, safety and security risks for the project. At the same time this broadly defined environment, where the project is located, is altered and impacted by the project itself. Therefore, the "project" and "environment/context" are two essential parameters to understand the health challenges that a company need to manage when starting a greenfield project. The paper concludes systemizing the experience of this HIA in key practical tips for people implementing HIA of complex projects in remote locations.
- Health & Medicine > Consumer Health (1.00)
- Energy > Oil & Gas > Upstream (1.00)
- Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Gulf Province > Petroleum Retention License 15 > Petroleum Retention License 15 (PRL 15) > Elk and Antelope Fields > Puri Formation (0.99)
- Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Gulf Province > Petroleum Retention License 15 > Petroleum Retention License 15 (PRL 15) > Elk and Antelope Fields > Mendi Formation (0.99)
- Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Gulf Province > PRL 15 > Petroleum Retention License 15 (PRL 15) > Elk and Antelope Fields > Puri Formation (0.99)
- Oceania > Papua New Guinea > Gulf Province > PRL 15 > Petroleum Retention License 15 (PRL 15) > Elk and Antelope Fields > Mendi Formation (0.99)