The Place and Priority of Hospital Disaster Plans in Occupational Health and Safety

The purpose of this study is to discuss the importance of Hospital Disaster Plans (HAP) in occupational health and safety in the context of legal bases and to explain the main points of an example work. In the study, the provisions of Emergency Plans in the Article 11 of the Law on Occupational Health and Safety (Law No. 28339 dated 30.6.2012) were examined and the place and importance of HAP in occupational health and safety was emphasized. While working on establishing a sample Hospital Disaster Plan Model for Hospital of University, adaptations and updates have been made by taking into account the previous studies and present Hospital Disaster Plan of Hospital. It was thought that the study could be a useful resource for those who would later prepare a similar program. The original name of the proposed model is Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS); it is adopted and implemented in some universities, state and private hospitals in the developed countries and especially in the United States of America. Since it is a modular plan, it is easy to adapt to disasters of different location and size. In this Model; in the organizational chart the tasks, officials and their connections with each other are described in the original. As a result of the research, the prepared HAP Model can be applied in all kinds of disasters and costs are low. Damages of disasters can be reduced with triage experiences developed in training and exercises in line with the plan. Our country is assumed to frequently encounter with the disasters. Whatever the size, type, destruction of such disasters is, training and educative exercises would minimize the damages of disasters like those other developed countries did