The Safety Management Evaluation of Public Hazardous Materials in Hospitals

• Main Authors: Jiunn-sheng Wang, 王俊盛
• Other Authors: Ho,San-Ping
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02503407890576295295

碩士 === 長榮大學 === 職業安全與衛生學系碩士在職專班 === 104 === Medical centers can supply medical needs for patients, and the need for medical centers grows each day due to population growth and high density of population in urban areas. To satisfy the increasing scale of medical centers, the increase of building area, health care personnel, medical equipment, and other related facilities is required. Currently in Taiwan, the largest medical center employs around 2000 people, consists of approximately 1500 hospital beds, and has patients and family members entering and exiting constantly and in high densities; if a disaster were to occur, the degree of risk would be difficult to imagine. For example, in the small hours of October 23, 2012, a serious fire occurred at the Beimen Branch of the Department of Health Hsinying Hospital, which resulted in a tragedy of 12 deaths and over 70 injured. This incident was by far the most serious fire accident in Taiwan medical history; discoveries after the incident pointed towards flammable objects, safety management, patients’ weak sense of crisis and ability to escape as factors to the accident. Excluding the factor of patients, a large amount of interior renovation, medical cleaning and disinfection solutions, and related facilities all possessed flammable characteristics, with commonly seen public hazardous materials listed by fire agencies being: alcohol, diesel oil, heavy oil etc. This research gathered and came to understand whether the management of public hazardous materials (mostly referring to the Public Hazardous Substances & Flammable Pressurized Gases Establishment Standards & Safety Control Regulations), usage during operation, and hospital evaluation content correspond with the current situation or not; current laws were used as a basis while using computer simulations for assistance to act as reference for improvements on existing site management, prevention, and evaluation content.