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Quality Assurance in Disaster Planning: A Waste of Time?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

B. Prendal
B. Prendal
Affiliation:
Quality Assurance Operations Division, Scandinavian Airlines System
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In defining our terms we must ask ourselves—how many aircraft accidents occur and where do the majority of them happen?

Figure 1 shows the total number of losses to be 318 over a 25 year period, the average being around 12 per year. While 1984 was a better than average year when only 7 losses occurred.

Type
Selected papers from the 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Brighton, United Kingdom, June, 1985
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 1-4: Contributions from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services-Focus on Disaster, Baltimore, Md., USA, 1986 and 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine Brighton, U.K. June, 1985 , 1986 , pp. 209 - 213
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1986

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