An examination of preparedness, response, and recovery for the La Plata, Maryland, tornado

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Robert M. Schwartz, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Site Visit ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Intensity Scale ◽  
National Weather Service ◽  
La Plata ◽  
Charles County ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Town

The most severe tornado of spring, 2002, did not occur in Tornado Alley but in La Plata, MD. It was first classified as an F5 but then reclassified as an F4 on the Fujita Tornado Intensity Scale. This paper examines preparedness, response, and recovery issues by studying the town of La Plata (a bedroom community south of Washington, DC), Charles County, Maryland, and the National Weather Service. Methods employed included a site visit, field observations, and interviews.

Strategies for Writing a Department Self-Study and Preparing for a Site Visit

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
Margaret Thomas-Evans ◽  
Carrie Longley ◽  
M. Michaux Parker
Keyword(s):  
Site Visit ◽  
Self Study ◽  
A Site

A risk-reduction framework for urban cultural heritage: a comparative study on Italian historic centres

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Giuliani ◽  
Rosa Grazia De Paoli ◽  
Enrica Di Miceli
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Step Procedure ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
A Site ◽  
Key Resources

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present and validate a large-scale methodology for risk assessment and management in cultural heritage sites, taking into account their specific tangible or intangible values. Emphasis is given to historic centres that are key resources in building resilience to disasters but are also highly vulnerable due to several factors, such as the characteristics of the built environment, the community and social life, the lack of risk awareness and maintenance and finally the poor regulatory framework for their management and valorisation.Design/methodology/approachThe multi-step procedure starts from the assessment of the attributes of cultural heritage in order to identify priorities and address the analysis. Then, it evaluates the primary and secondary hazards in the area, the vulnerabilities and threats of the site and the impacts of the chain of events. Finally, it allows for calibrating a site-specific set of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery measures.FindingsThe application to two case studies in the Italian peninsula, the historic centres of San Gimignano and Reggio Calabria, allows for identifying research gaps and practical opportunities towards the adoption of common guidelines for the selection of safety measures.Originality/valueBy providing a qualitative assessment of risks, the research points out the potentialities of the methodology in the disaster risk management of cultural heritage due to its capacity to be comprehensive and inclusive towards disciplines and professionals.

Seeing the Holocaust in Grief

Grief ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 179-202
Author(s):  
David Shneer
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
Crime Scene ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Mass Atrocity ◽  
A Site ◽  
Yad Vashem

In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited its new acquisition, Grief, alongside iconic photographs of camp survivors. It also appeared in major photography exhibitions related to war and atrocities. Baltermants’s Kerch photographs, including Grief, are also in Holocaust archives in Washington, DC, and Jerusalem. The author returns to the wartime crime scene in Kerch, where locals have commemorated the mass atrocity at the trench ever since the war. In 1975, an obelisk was erected at its southern end as a site of public mourning, and in 2010, a black granite sculpture was installed emphasizing the Jewish nature of the tragedy that took place there. The chapter concludes with contemporary researchers for Yad Vashem and Paris-based Yahad in Unum photographing sites of the “Holocaust by bullets,” in this case at the trench that Baltermants and other Soviet photojournalists came across in early 1942.

Organising a site visit

2017 ◽  
pp. 94-115
Author(s):  
Emma Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Site Visit ◽  
A Site

scholarly journals IMIA Accreditation of Health Informatics Programs

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (01) ◽  
pp. 139-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hasman
Keyword(s):  
Health Informatics ◽  
One Health ◽  
The Self ◽  
Site Visit ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Assessment Report ◽  
First Impression ◽  
A Site

SummaryTo develop a procedure for accrediting health informatics programs.Development of a procedure for accreditation. Test of the accreditation procedure via a trial including four or five health informatics programs. A site visit committee consisting of three members evaluates the program based on a self-assessment report written by the program and the experiences and observations of the site visit committee during the site visit.A procedure for accreditation has been developed. The instructions for health informatics programs have been written and a checklist for the site visit committee members is available. In total six subjects are considered, each one consisting of one or more facets. Each facet is judged using its corresponding criterion. Five health informatics programs volunteered. One health informatics program in Finland has already been visited and a report has been produced by the site visit committee. The next site visits are in June and July 2012. The site visit in Finland showed that English summaries of master theses are not enough to get a first impression of the methods used in the thesis. A table of contents is also needed. This information then can be used to select theses written in a language other than English for discussion.The accreditation procedure document with instructions about writing the self-assessment report was very well structured and the instructions were clear according to the Finnish program. The site visit team could work well with the checklist. Self-assessment report model was very well structured and the instructions were clear.

Development, delivery and evaluation of interactive technology training – a case study

1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 173-181
Author(s):  
R. Glynn Skerratt
Keyword(s):  
Technology Training ◽  
Interactive Technology ◽  
Site Visit ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Process Technology ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
A Site

A case study is described which seeks to explain some of the key factors in the rationale, development, delivery and evaluation of a series of in-company process/technology training courses. The main points to emerge are the benefit to the training experience associated with interactive delivery and the advantages that are associated with developing group exercises which are coordinated with, and embedded within a site visit, and which are reviewed and discussed during a post-visit debriefing session. Guidance is given on ways of including these activities into training courses together with methods for evaluating their effectiveness.

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