CLIENT STORY US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious DiseasesSUMMARY In 2001 a terrorist sent anthrax through the mail, killing 5 people and contaminating dozens of buildings, including the Brentwood Post Office in Washington, D.C. One of the most contaminated facilities, the post office was characterized as an uncontrolled hazardous waste site by OSHA. Scientists from the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) were called in to provide technical support and oversight of the cleanup, but since they rarely worked in the field they had not yet received the OSHA-required certification for uncontrolled hazardous waste site operations, and time was of the essence. SafetySkills was tasked with the challenge of getting the scienti

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