COMPARISON OF DISASTER AND EMERGENCY PLANS PREPARED FOR SCHOOL, DORMITORY AND HOSPITAL: BURDUR SAMPLE, TURKEY

Year 2019, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 1 - 14, 09.07.2019

Aysun Güzel

Abstract

The aim of this research is to prepare disaster and emergency plans for different institutions such as schools, dormitories, and hospitals and to identify the similarities and differences between these plans. Research data were collected between January and June in 2018. The research is a descriptive methodological research and the contents of disaster plans collected from three different schools, dormitories and hospitals in Burdur/ Turkey. Because all institutions are in the same province, many of the hazards are shared in all of them. As for different ones, mass suicide and mass drug use are encountered in the plans prepared for schools and dormitories; In the plans prepared for the hospitals, lake accidents, armory explosion, strike, traffic accidents, angry patient relatives, marble quarry accidents were detected. Some hazards that may lead to disasters vary by the
type of institutions, but many hazards are common because all institutions are in the same province.

COMPARISON OF DISASTER AND EMERGENCY PLANS PREPARED FOR SCHOOL, DORMITORY AND HOSPITAL: BURDUR SAMPLE, TURKEY

Abstract

The
aim of this research is to prepare disaster and emergency plans for different
institutions such as schools, dormitories, and hospitals and to identify the
similarities and differences between these plans. Research data were collected
between January and June in 2017. The research is a descriptive methodological
research and the contents of disaster plans collected from three different
schools, dormitories and hospitals in Burdur/Turkey. Because all institutions
are in the same province, many of the hazards are shared in all of them. As for
different ones, mass suicide and mass drug use are encountered in the plans
prepared for schools and dormitories; In the plans prepared for the hospitals,
lake accidents, armory explosion, strike, traffic accidents, angry patient
relatives, marble quarry accidents were detected. Some hazards that may lead to
disasters vary by the type of institutions, but many hazards are common because
all institutions are in the same province.

Keywords

COMPARISON, DISASTER, PREPARED

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