Emergency preparedness for long lasting releases – source terms

Capacity Building for Hazmat Transport Emergency Preparedness: 'Hotspot Impact Zone' Mapping from Flammable and Toxic Releases

Hazardous Material transportation by road is coupled with inherent risk of accidents causing loss of lives, grievous injuries, property losses and environmental damages. The most common type of hazmat road accident happens to be the releases (78%) of hazardous substances, followed by fires (28%), explosions (14%) and vapour/ gas clouds (6 %.). The paper is discussing initially the probable ‘Imp...

emergency nurses’ requirements for disaster preparedness

results based on the findings, most of the participants (64.5%) were aged 30 - 39 years old. 84% of the cases were female and 97.3% had a bachelor’s degree. the average perceived knowledge of nurses was 2.43 ± 1.01. the nurses had the highest familiarity with triage and lowest knowledge in epidemiology and decision-making. conclusions lack knowledge of nurses regarding response to disaster situ...

Preparedness for emergency response: guidelines for the emergency planning process.

Especially since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, governments worldwide have invested considerable resources in the writing of terrorism emergency response plans. Particularly in the United States, the federal government has created new homeland security organisations and urged state and local governments to draw up plans. This emphasis on the written plan tends to draw attention awa...

Emergency preparedness and disability.

Community emergency/disaster preparedness.