Emergency Exposure Situations: IAEA Safety Standards and Guidance

Enhancing safety in behavioral emergency situations.

The implementation of a behavioral emergency response team (BERT) at a large midwestern health care organization is described. The BERT is a resource supporting nurses and other health care staff in managing behavioral emergencies. The Joint Commission (2010) reported an increasing rate of violence by patients toward health care staff, reinforcing a need for the BERT. No published reports were ...

Engineering thinking in emergency situations: A new nuclear safety concept

The lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi accident have focused on preventive measures designed to protect nuclear reactors, and crisis management plans. Although there is still no end in sight to the accident that occurred on March 11, 2011, how engineers have handled the aftermath offers new insight into the capacity of organizations to adapt in situations that far exceed the scope of sa...

Nuclear and radiation safety: Guidance for emergency response

involving radioactive materials in recent years have had consequences for the health of the general public. These have ranged from the major accident at Chernobyl in 1986 to accidental dispersion of medical and industrial radioactive sources. Responses to these accidents differed between countries. It later became apparent that some protective actions were taken that, in the most extreme cases,...

product safety standards: guidance for suppliers and supporter of supply chain

in the modern world today where the margin of error is minimal for the growth and at the same time there is a very competitive and challenging economic environment, it is very significant and crucial that efficiency is being prevailed in the organization through the help of international standards through which the respective organization should maximize their profits and should meet their resp...

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