{"title":"Assessing differences in chemical disaster proneness: the Community Chemical Hazard Vulnerability Inventory.","authors":"T Gabor, C Pelanda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increase in accidents with dangerous chemicals makes it incumbent upon community and regional planners to deal systematically with this problem. The first step invariably involves the assessment of the likelihood and type of incident which may impact a given area so that disasters may be averted or, at least, their effects mitigated. This paper presents one such assessment scheme, the Community Chemical Hazard Vulnerability Inventory (CCHVI). This instrument, aside from considering the type and volume of substances posing a threat to a designated area, considers the physical and human resources available, as well as the general state of readiness of the area (including such things as the interface of emergency-related organizations). The use of such vulnerability assessment instruments allows local emergency planners to identify particular dangers within their communities and permits regional planners to allocate funds for planning according to relative needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":79880,"journal":{"name":"Emergency planning digest","volume":"10 3","pages":"9-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21133376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Atlantis: a disaster simulation exercise for training purposes.","authors":"G N Ritchie","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79880,"journal":{"name":"Emergency planning digest","volume":"10 1","pages":"2-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21132683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computers in emergency planning.","authors":"D R Perley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79880,"journal":{"name":"Emergency planning digest","volume":"9 3","pages":"2-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21132684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How a disaster differs from an emergency . . . counties should develop systems for dealing with both.","authors":"D Baltz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79880,"journal":{"name":"Emergency planning digest","volume":"9 1","pages":"11-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21128561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disaster planning at a Friesen concept hospital.","authors":"P M McCarron, G H Hunter","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Disaster planning is a task which will probably never be \"completed\", since to be effective, a disaster plan must constantly be reviewed and modified. The Hospital Disaster Working Committee at the Ottawa General Hospital has so far been presented with both challenge and opportunity. The challenge is to make best use of our new facility, while coping with the changes which a new site predicates. The opportunity is to take advantage of the past experience of our own people and others who are involved in disaster planning, and make a strong beginning.</p>","PeriodicalId":79880,"journal":{"name":"Emergency planning digest","volume":"8 2","pages":"5-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21126087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exercise \"Surefire\".","authors":"J E Ayers","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To be effective, disaster plans must be exercised from time to time. This article describes how one Canadian municipality conducted an exercise that covered a range of a dozen disaster plans, involving federal, provincial and municipal levels of government, private organizations and industry. Thirty-six organizations and upwards of 1200 participants co-operated in a combined operation that enabled the municipality to cope with a major simulated disaster. The co-ordination of this exercise was a joint effort on the part of the P.E.I. Emergency Measures Organization and the office of the P.E.I. Regional Director, Emergency Planning Canada.</p>","PeriodicalId":79880,"journal":{"name":"Emergency planning digest","volume":"7 1","pages":"13-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21169744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mississauga \"saga\".","authors":"D Amyot","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At approximately seven minutes to midnight on Saturday, November 10, 1979, a Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) train travelling from Windsor to Scarborough, Ontario, was derailed in an industrial area in the centre of Mississauga in Peel County (near Toronto). The accident was attributed to an overheated axle bearing on a propane tank car. The resultant fire which ignited the gas created a huge column of fire that lit up the sky. Firefighters noticed the flames from their stations. The nine fire stations in Mississauga were alerted and the first units arrived on the scene at 2355 hrs. (In 15 minutes, 55 firefighters were on the scene, and within the next half hour there were 110). This was the start of what was to result in the largest peace-time evacuation in recorded history. What follows is an account of the events that took place during the tense days that followed, and includes information available as of 17 December 1979.</p>","PeriodicalId":79880,"journal":{"name":"Emergency planning digest","volume":"7 1","pages":"5-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21113394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}