Public Health Service Hazardous Duty Award Ribbon

Criteria: Awarded to any member of the U.S. Public Health Service having logged 200 exposure hours over 180 consecutive days in a position requiring frequent risk to officer’s safety. Assignments where the officer’s professional knowledge should significantly reduce or abolish the risk do not qualify. Specific assignments include: required contact with inmates/detainees at certain Bureau of Prison’s facilities, Forensic Hospital at St. Elizabeth’s, and Immigration and Naturalization sites; 8 round trips or 16 duty site destinations on frequent unscheduled aircraft flights within a 6-month period (aircraft must seat 10 or fewer passengers; or Industrial hygiene surveys of mine sites.