Educational Needs of Chemical Accident Crisis Teams: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study

Abstract

Industrial development and technological advances have raised living standards; nonetheless, despite the substantial benefits of chemical compounds in industry, they present humans with dangerous potentials, such as disasters and chemical crises. Nowadays, more than 15 million hazardous chemical substances are commercially available, 70,000 of which are used on a daily basis, and about 200-1,000 new chemicals are annually added to the list (1). Chemical substances are the source of chemical threats, chemical warfare, chemical contaminators in the environment, as well as A-R-T-I-C-L-EI-N-F-O A-B-S-T-R-A-C-T