Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 2 Issue 1

Beyond the Safety Programme

D. Gillingham, J.A. Blanco, H. Blanco, B. Cameron, S. McDonald

Describes a unique experiment in safety management which has led toa significant improvement in the safety performance of work groups atthe smelter of INCO Ltd in Sudbury, Canada.

A Comparative Analysis of Organizational Response to Traumatic Stress among Workers in the Aftermath of Crisis

Laurence Barton, Mark Braverman, Susan Braverman

Analyses the psychological harm to employees in the aftermath ofworkplace trauma and the comparative responses of managers at two largecorporations where workers were traumatized…

Emergency Management at Federal and State Level in the United States of America: An Outline

H.H. Evans

The Federal Emergency Management Agency was established in order toprovide a single focus for emergency management in the USA and ischarged with providing a programme for hazard…

The Winston Churchill Trust 1992 ″Disaster″ Travelling Fellowships

W.G.V. Balchin

Analyses the applications received by the Winston Churchill Trustfor the “Disaster” category in the 1992 TravellingFellowship Competition. A total of 232 valid and viable…

The Environmental Disasters of the Future Will Be More and Worse but the Prospect Is Not Hopeless

E.L. Quarantelli

States that on the global scene, but particularly in modernsocieties, we are inevitably faced with more and worse disasters in thefuture because of the industrialization and…

A System for Local Authority Management in a Major Emergency

Ronald H. Mountain

Begins with a brief overview of the various forms of preparationfor major emergencies which are typically undertaken by localauthorities. Argues that in addition to the usual…