MASS FATALITY RESOURCES
Compiled by Paul Sledzik
NTSB/ Office of Transportation Disaster Assistance

• The Dentist's Role in Forensic Identification:  The Release of Dental Records and Radiographs, and Denture Labeling

• Guidelines for Handling Decedents Contaminated with Radioactive Materials

• Health Concerns Associated with Disaster Victim Identification After a Tsunami --- Thailand, December 26, 2004--March 31, 2005

• Interim Health Concerns for Workers who Handle Human Remains

• Disaster Related Mortality Surveillance Form

• Disposing of Liquid Waste from Autopsies in Tsunami-Affected Areas:  Interim Guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• National Response Plan

• DMORT:  Flight 93 Morgue Protocol

• Guidance for Mass Rescue Operations

• Joint Tactics, Techniques and Procedures for Mortuary Operations in Joint Operations

• Guidelines for Protecting Mortuary Personnel from Potential Infectious Material

• Capstone Document:  Mass Fatality Management for Incidents Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction

• Guidelines for Mass Fatality Management During Terrorist Incidents Involving Chemical Agents

• Medical Examiner/Coroner Guide for Mass Fatality Management of Chemically contaminated Remains

• Dealing with the Stress of Recovering Human Dead Bodies

• Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner

• Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory

• Mass Fatality Incidents:  A Guide for Human Identification

• Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner

• Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory

• Identifying Victims Using DNA:  A Guide for Families

• Death Investigation:  A Guide for the Scene Investigator

• Crime Scene Investigation:  A Guide for Law Enforcement

• Providing Relief to Families After a Mass Fatality:  Roles of the Medical Examiner's Office and the Family Assistance Center

• Lessons Learned from 9/11: DNA Identification in Mass Fatality Incidents

• Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)

• FBI Office for Victim Assistance (OVA)

• FBI Disaster Squad

• FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT)

• Foreign Affairs Manual Volume 7 (1830): Aviation and Other Transportation Disasters

• Disaster Victim Identification Guide

• Victim Identification Report

• Postmortem Form

• Antemortem Form

• NAME Mass Fatality Plan

• Mass Fatality Resources

• Responding to an Aircraft Accident - How to Support the NTSB (For Police and Public Safety Personnel).

• Federal Family Assistance Plan for Aviation Disasters

• Victim/Family Support Coordination

• City of London Mass Fatality Plan

• Guidance on Dealing with Fatalities in Emergencies

• Humanitarian Assistance in Emergencies:  Guidance on Establishing Family Assistance Centres

• Report on the July 7 London Subway/Bus Bombings

• Management of Dead Bodies in Disaster Situations

• Infectious Disease Risks from Dead Bodies Following Natural Disasters

• Disaster Myths

• Review of medico-legal experience involving Tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka.  Dr. UCP Perera

• Forensic aspect of disaster casualty management Tsunami Victim Identification in Thailand.  Pongruk Sribanditmongkol, MD.,PhD

• World Trade Center Human Identification Project:  Experiences with Individual Body Identification Cases

• Development of a Quality, High Throughput DNA Analysis Procedure for Skeletal Samples to Assist with the Identification of Victims from the World Trade Center Attacks

• Deaths in the World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks

• World Trade Center DNA Identifications:  The Administrative Review Process

• Methods Developed to Identify Victims of the World Trade center Disaster

• Mass Fatality Management following the South Asian Tsunami Disaster:  Case Studies in Thailand, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka

• Inside an International Crisis:  How First Responders Combined Forces in Thailand and Sri Lanka

• After the Tsunami:  Legal Implications of Mass Burials of Unidentified Victims in Sri Lanka

• OSHA Health and Safety Recommendations for Workers Who Handle Human Remains

• Handling of Disaster Victim Human Remains:  A Quick Guide for Health Care Workers, Medical Examiners, and Funeral Services

• Epidemics After Natural Disasters:  A Highly Contagious Myth

• Reuniting the Families of Hurricane Katrina and Rita:  Louisiana Family Assistance Center

• Report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel

• Mass Murder In A University Setting:  Analysis of the Medical Examiner Response

• Victim Identification and Family Support in Mass Casualty Incidents:  The Massachusetts Model

• Challenges of DNA Profiling in Mass Disaster Investigations

• Bibliography of Mass Fatality Investigations