scholarly journals Emergency Planning for Records and Archives Service

Atlanti ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Habibe Qovanaj ◽  
Shpresa Mekaj
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Emergency Planning ◽  
Emergency Plan ◽  
Emergency Plans ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Terrestrial Globe

Every day we are witnessing the destruction of archival documents in all the terrestrial globe as a result of disasters such as earthquakes, floods, fires, war etc. These adversities have raised awareness of archivists to do anything to protect archival documents, because these disaster at any moment can slam their institution. In order to protect themselves and their assets, including records and archives, many organizations develop “emergency plans”. An emergency plan seeks to protect people and property and ensure that, in the event of an emergency, action is taken immediately to reduce the damage incurred and institute recovery procedures right away. A risk assessment and impact analysis is usually carried out in four stages: identifying records and assets, determining threats, assessing their impact and recommending action.

scholarly journals Water Dams of the Krakow Fortress: Potential of a Vanishing Heritage

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1273
Author(s):  
Wojciech Korbel ◽  
Filip Suchoń ◽  
Marta Łapuszek
Keyword(s):  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Historical Legacy ◽  
Cultural Heritage Conservation ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
Virtual Modeling

Cultural heritage conservation is a constant process of preserving the valuable historical legacy and transferring it to future generations. The ability to adapt the matter under conservation to changing needs and environmental conditions is an essential element of this process. In this context, climate change and its consequences are a growing challenge, requiring innovative and often simultaneous efforts. This study was conducted in response to the discovery of previously unknown documents on nineteenth-century impoundment structures of the Krakow Fortress’s defensive system. At present, the facilities are almost entirely ruined, yet the need to restore and preserve the memory of their culturally valuable legacy merits investigation. The conditions and requirements of the management of Krakow’s changing hydrological environment became a vital component of this study. The uncovered archival documents were subjected to historical-interpretative analysis. Virtual modeling contributed to identifying the original scope of the dams’ impact. Analysis of the city’s spatial planning documents pointed to their contemporary potential. The entirety of the material collected aided in determining the framework in which protective measures targeting this dying heritage are currently possible. This study features a proposal for a new form of recreating the structures under investigation by assigning them a range of possible simultaneous uses. Thus, the presented research proposal is a form of concern for preserving this historical legacy and an attempt at rising to contemporary challenges posed by an intensively changing environment.

Beyond the Collection

2016 ◽  
pp. 120-140
Author(s):  
Jill Dixon ◽  
Nancy Abashian
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Emergency Planning ◽  
Emergency Plan ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
New Information ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
New Policies

It is inevitable that library staff will need to respond to natural disasters and emergency situations – often with little or no advance warning. An important part of emergency planning is addressing public and staff safety prior, during, and immediately following emergencies. All libraries need to develop a comprehensive emergency plan with clear, consistent, and concise policies and procedures for staff. The plan needs to provide detailed instructions for all types of potential emergency situations and should be periodically re-evaluated and updated to address new concerns or when new information or resources become available. This chapter will discuss the process of creating an emergency plan for public and staff safety, including reviewing resources, consulting with experts, developing new policies and procedures, and disseminating the information to staff.

Emergency Planning (R)Evolution

2018 ◽  
pp. 1332-1358
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Lock ◽  
Craig Fansler ◽  
Meghan Webb
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Emergency Planning ◽  
Emergency Plans ◽  
Continuity Of Operations ◽  
Review Cycle

This chapter discusses how a library can revise its existing emergency, disaster, and Continuity of Operations plans, through the utilization of new technologies and an ongoing review cycle. While reviews of existing emergency plans typically happen in response to actual emergencies, this chapter encourages flipping that scenario by conducting ongoing reviews with a small, dedicated committee. The chapter identifies important steps to follow in revising emergency plans and discusses incorporating e-book and short form formats to enhance training and documentation.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Household Emergency Plans in Violent Tornadoes

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Zhen Cong ◽  
Daan Liang ◽  
Jianjun Luo
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Emergency Plan ◽  
Emergency Plans

ABSTRACT Objective: This study examined factors that were associated with the effectiveness of pre-existing household emergency plans during the 2011 EF5 Joplin and EF4 Tuscaloosa tornadoes. We focused on whether discussing with family members helped increase the plan’s effectiveness. Methods: A telephone survey based on random sampling was conducted in 2012 with 1006 respondents in both cities. Each city experienced huge losses, injuries, and casualties. The working sample included 494 respondents who had a household emergency plan in place before these tornadoes. Results: Multinomial logistic regression showed that discussing with family members increased the helpfulness of the plan in Joplin, where people had not experienced tornadoes frequently and were less prepared for tornadoes relative to residents in Tuscaloosa. Conclusions: This study provides empirical evidence on the importance of encouraging family involvement when making household emergency plans, especially in places that are less prepared for disasters than those that are better prepared.

Evaluation of Emergency Plans of High-Speed Railway in Mountainous Area Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets

2014 ◽  
Vol 926-930 ◽  
pp. 3812-3817
Author(s):  
Yun Hao Yao ◽  
Yuan Fu Li
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Sets ◽  
Index System ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Emergency Plan ◽  
Emergency Plans ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Intuitionistic Fuzzy ◽  
The Index System

The emergency plan of high-speed railway plays an important role in guiding railway emergency management, the quality of which will directly affect the effectiveness and efficiency of emergency and rescue. Aiming at characteristics emergency plans of high-speed railway in mountainous areas, the evaluation index system of emergency plan of high-speed railway in mountainous areas is proposed. Based on the index system and intuitionistic fuzzy sets evaluation matrix, the scoring function value method is used to evaluate the index system. This paper uses the entropy method to assign weight to the index system, and finally take the emergency plan of high-speed railway from Guiyang to Guangzhou as an example to demonstrate the rationality.

scholarly journals Investigations on natural hazards which trigger technological disasters in Romania

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1319-1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Ozunu ◽  
F. Senzaconi ◽  
C. Botezan ◽  
L. Ştefǎnescu ◽  
E. Nour ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Emergency Planning ◽  
Emergency Plans ◽  
Technological Disasters

Abstract. Romania faces the challenges of a developing country preparing to cope with disasters, be they natural or technological. The paper entails comprehensive research on technological accidents triggered by natural hazards (so-called Natech accidents). The research is based on a survey conducted by the competent authorities on the Seveso II Directive in 2009. This survey enabled the identification of Natech hazards and their correlation with the vulnerability of local communities and infrastructures. The Natech hazards were analyzed also in terms of their inclusion in the emergency planning process, starting from the current legislation. The results indicate that the number of incidents (including Natech events) has significantly decreased subsequent to the appropriate implementation of emergency plans and safety reports.

Intelligent Extraction and Generation Technology of Emergency Plan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
haiyang liu
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Emergency Plan ◽  
Response Process ◽  
Emergency Plans ◽  
Response Condition ◽  
Business Process Modeling Notation ◽  
Generation Technology

<p>Natural disasters will bring a huge threat to the safety of human life and property. When disasters happen, leaders at all levels need to respond in time. Emergency plans can be regarded as the effective guidance of natural disaster emergency responses, and they include the textual descriptions of emergency response processes in terms of natural language. In this paper, we propose an approach to automatically extract emergency response process models from Chinese emergency plans, and can automatically generate appropriate emergency plans. First, the emergency plan is represented as a text tree according to its layout markups and sentence-sequential relations. Then, process model elements, including four-level response condition formulas, executive roles, response tasks, and flow relations, are identified by rule-based approaches. An emergency response process tree is generated from both the text tree and extracted process model elements, and is transformed to an emergency response process that is modeled as business process modeling notation. Finally, when different disasters occur, a new plan is generated according to the training of historical plan database. A large number of experiments in the actual emergency plan show that this method can extract the emergency response process model, and can generate a suitable new plan.</p>

Study on Semantic Model of Urban Rail Transit Emergency Plan

2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 2822-2826
Author(s):  
Yun Tao Du ◽  
Ling Ling Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Urban Rail Transit ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Semantic Model ◽  
Emergency Plan ◽  
Emergency Plans ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ontology Model ◽  
Urban Rail

Emergency plan modeling is the foundation of the work for digitizing emergency plans. On the basis of analyzing the content and structure of the existing urban rail transit emergency plans, a formalization method for emergency plans based on ontology is put forward. The core terms of emergency plans are extracted and classified. The relationships between various concepts are concluded. Combined with related concepts of ontology five meta-words, the ontology model of emergency plans is constructed. The emergency plan system from a subway company is presented as a real world case to establish the semantic model, providing the feasibility of the method proposed.

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