| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄應用科技大學 === 土木工程與防災科技研究所 === 106 === The government of Taiwan has established a USAR(Urban Sarch and Rescue) team after the 921 earthquake to strengthen the rescue capabilities for building collapse rescue operation in earthquake disasters. However, currently there are no training courses on building safety assessment offered in USAR team, and to develop a series of courses on the subject is in fact a matter of urgency.
The purpose of this research is to establish a set of reference indicators used by the USAR team to conduct a building safety assessment, and to build up a framework for safety assessment courses.
The research methods are as follows. First,a statistical analysis method is used to analyze USAR team members’ attitudes and cognitions about the safety assessment. Then, we adopted the participant observation method to compare the differences between the safety assessment of the Tainan Weiguan Building rescue operation and of the Hualien earthquake rescue mission. Finally, based on the results of analysis and comparison, we are able to establish a framework for the content of structural safety assessment courses.
The research has found that for building search and rescue operations, the training of safety assessment is indispensable for the search and rescue personnel's decision making and actions. The above findings can also be verified through the participant observation method. Moreover, this research has established a preliminary framework for the content of building safety assessment courses.
Keywords: USAR, safety assessment, participant observation.
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