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This manuscript focuses on the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in the Czech Republic and its impact on economic and social sustainability in this country. The topic of this manuscript is the topical issue of how to manage the outbreak of this infectious disease and thereby reduce any disruption to economic and social sustainability. The aim of the authors was to identify serious risks and to propose priority measures that can lead to their significant mitigation. A modified semi-quantitative three-component probability method Pj, consequences Cj and opinion of evaluators OEj were used to assess active risks. The manuscript also presents risk analysis and risk management and the construction of developmental regression models. The manuscript presents a proposal for preventive measures to mitigate risks in the period of the third wave of the occurrence and spread of the coronavirus. Most of the proposed preventive measures were based on brainstorming of the views and experience of the implementation team. Consultation with and materials by experts in the field of developmental biology, parasitology, epidemiology and virology were also used. As such, this survey provides lessons for other cities and regions involved in coping with COVID-19 infection and implementing the policy of a positive and timely return to work.
František Božek; Irena Tušer. Measures for Ensuring Sustainability during the Current Spreading of Coronaviruses in the Czech Republic. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6764 .
AMA StyleFrantišek Božek, Irena Tušer. Measures for Ensuring Sustainability during the Current Spreading of Coronaviruses in the Czech Republic. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6764.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrantišek Božek; Irena Tušer. 2021. "Measures for Ensuring Sustainability during the Current Spreading of Coronaviruses in the Czech Republic." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6764.
The article deals with the application of the environmental damage assessment procedure and H&V index II method to the diesel fuel tank storage facility in a sand mining company using a case study. The procedures enabled the researchers to semi-quantitatively assess the operated diesel fuel tank’s impact on the selected environmental components and the possible damage risk by the leakage of stored fuel. It was discovered, by assessing the operating conditions, the state of the environment at the mining facility, and the risk of a diesel fuel leakage accident, that it is not necessary for the company to implement further steps in the field of environmental damage minimization. The H&V index II method examined both the impacts of diesel fuel leakage on soil, biotic component, groundwater, surface water, and the impact of flammable substances on the biotic environmental component in six steps. Slight or significant impacts were identified depending on the environmental component during the determination of the accident severity. The accident severity, together with the estimated probability, was plotted in the risk matrix which resulted in acceptable risks for all affected environmental components. The results of both approaches showed that the diesel fuel leakage in the mining company represents an acceptable environmental risk in relation to the countermeasures implemented so far.
Alena Oulehlova; Irena Tušer; David Rehak. Environmental Risk Assessment of a Diesel Fuel Tank: A Case Study. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6537 .
AMA StyleAlena Oulehlova, Irena Tušer, David Rehak. Environmental Risk Assessment of a Diesel Fuel Tank: A Case Study. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6537.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlena Oulehlova; Irena Tušer; David Rehak. 2021. "Environmental Risk Assessment of a Diesel Fuel Tank: A Case Study." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6537.
Security management is an area of management that deals with the security of assets (resources) in an organization, i.e. both physical security and digital security. The key areas also include human resources management, occupational safety and health protection. Security management is very closely linked to risk management and aims to create conditions that will help to prevent or minimize identified risks, mainly through internal policies, processes, standards and tools. Risks also include accidents at work of employees. As part of the prevention of accidents, measures that would prevent the occurrence or repetition of the occurrence of an injury with the same cause or source must always be applied. The first phase of risk management must identify the origin and causal link of occupational accidents, which was the intention of the implementation of the submitted pre-case study in the field of the Emergency Medical Services of the Czech Republic. The authors dealt with a quantitative method consisting of statistical processing of data from the accident book and identifying the interdependencies (correlations) between them.
Irena Tušer; Jiří Jánský. Security Management in the Emergency Medical Services of the Czech Republic—Pre-case Study. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies 2021, 409 -423.
AMA StyleIrena Tušer, Jiří Jánský. Security Management in the Emergency Medical Services of the Czech Republic—Pre-case Study. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies. 2021; ():409-423.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIrena Tušer; Jiří Jánský. 2021. "Security Management in the Emergency Medical Services of the Czech Republic—Pre-case Study." Inventive Computation and Information Technologies , no. : 409-423.
Water and water management, which also includes wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), are considered essential elements critical infrastructure. A disruption of their operation can result in the discharge of wastewater into the environment without having been adequately treated. This can cause health problems, contamination of soil, groundwater and surface water, etc. In order to provide operational safety and sustainability of WWTP operation, it is necessary to establish protection against potential risk activation, together with risk minimization and enhanced preparedness to address the risks. The article deals with the application of risk management stages on the selected object of the municipal WWTP facility in the form of a case study. The risk identification phase consisted of the identification of assets and risks. The assets were grouped together due to the complexity of the WWTP operation. A combination of methods, a safety audit, a checklist and semi-structured interviews were used to identify the risks in three iterations. A risk register was created as a result of the risk identification phase. Subsequently, a risk analysis was carried out, in which the scenarios of the risk impact on the assets were examined, the index levels of probability and impacts were determined, and the risk estimate was performed. The Bowtie Analysis Method was used to illustrate the causes and consequences for one of the critical risks. The result of the study is the risk evaluation identified undesirable and unacceptable risks for which risk management methods were proposed
Irena Tušer; Alena Oulehlová. Risk Assessment and Sustainability of Wastewater Treatment Plant Operation. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5120 .
AMA StyleIrena Tušer, Alena Oulehlová. Risk Assessment and Sustainability of Wastewater Treatment Plant Operation. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5120.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIrena Tušer; Alena Oulehlová. 2021. "Risk Assessment and Sustainability of Wastewater Treatment Plant Operation." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5120.
This article deals with the provision of cooperation of the Army of the Czech Republic with other units of rescue teams in the implementation of rescue and liquidation work in the regions of the Czech Republic in non-military crisis situations. At the present time of the global pandemic of covid-19 and the associated mass deployment of forces and resources of the primary and secondary units of the rescue system, the required effective cooperation in practice has proved necessary. The paper deals with the analysis of emergency management in a state of emergency in order to contribute to the improvement of civil-military cooperation. Based on the results of the research survey, the authors proposed evaluation criteria for determining the level of emergency preparedness of the forces and resources of the Army of the Czech Republic.
Irena Tušer; Jiří Jánský; Antonín Petráš. Assessment of military preparedness for naturogenic threat: the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic. Heliyon 2021, 7, e06817 .
AMA StyleIrena Tušer, Jiří Jánský, Antonín Petráš. Assessment of military preparedness for naturogenic threat: the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic. Heliyon. 2021; 7 (4):e06817.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIrena Tušer; Jiří Jánský; Antonín Petráš. 2021. "Assessment of military preparedness for naturogenic threat: the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic." Heliyon 7, no. 4: e06817.
Experience gained from NATO operations shows that the basis for an effective solution to a crisis is a combination of a comprehensive political, civilian and military approach. The cooperation of all stakeholders is thus a basic prerequisite for the effective resolution of crisis situations. These aspects and stakeholders include emergency management. This paper deals with civil-military cooperation in times of emergency caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic. It qualitatively evaluates the findings resulting from the questionnaire survey focused on the state of crisis preparedness of the Army of the Czech Republic and the functionality of emergency management in cooperation with rescue work with other teams of the rescue system. The questionnaire was carried out at military units in all regions of the Czech Republic; organizational units of the Ministry of Defence with nationwide competence, which were directly involved in securing measures related to the declaration of a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March—May, 2020; Operations Command, which currently manages operations in the Czech Republic designed to manage the consequences of a pandemic; and members of the Ministry of Defence participating in the activities of the Strategic Command and Control Group. A total of 21 stakeholders took part. The experience in managing the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have shown that armed forces around the world have an irreplaceable position in dealing with nonmilitary crises. The conclusions and recommendations obtained from the research survey are the content of this paper.
Irena Tušer; Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova. Emergency Management in Resolving an Emergency Situation. Journal of Risk and Financial Management 2020, 13, 262 .
AMA StyleIrena Tušer, Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova. Emergency Management in Resolving an Emergency Situation. Journal of Risk and Financial Management. 2020; 13 (11):262.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIrena Tušer; Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova. 2020. "Emergency Management in Resolving an Emergency Situation." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13, no. 11: 262.
Irena Tušer; Jiří JÁNSKÝ. Capacities of the Army of the Czech Republic in Rescue and Liquidation Work in The Regions of the Czech Republic. Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation 2020, 2020, 162 -167.
AMA StyleIrena Tušer, Jiří JÁNSKÝ. Capacities of the Army of the Czech Republic in Rescue and Liquidation Work in The Regions of the Czech Republic. Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation. 2020; 2020 (1):162-167.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIrena Tušer; Jiří JÁNSKÝ. 2020. "Capacities of the Army of the Czech Republic in Rescue and Liquidation Work in The Regions of the Czech Republic." Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation 2020, no. 1: 162-167.
One of the negative components of international travel is the higher likelihood of emergencies that affect a large number of people (mass negative impact on health), for example the transmission of infectious diseases, as e.g. SARS CoV-2 pandemic. The frequency and sources of mass-casualty incidents are currently changing dynamically, especially with the onset of terrorist attacks and large-scale natural disasters. Health services and emergency medical service (EMS) take part in addressing these emergencies. For this reason, this paper deals with the EMS emergency preparedness in the Czech Republic for an emergency events with a large number of affected people. EMS in the Czech Republic are not provided by the state but by individual regions. EMS in the Czech Republic do not have central management, nor do they use uniform data documentation. The investigation of the current situation has shown that the attitudes of EMS in individual regions of the Czech Republic to the tasks of emergency preparedness for mass casualty incidents are not identical. The current method of evaluating improvements in the quality of EMS emergency preparedness lacks consistency and is not comprehensively supervised. To tackle this, the paper presents an internal audit methodology for assessing the level of emergency preparedness of the emergency medical services. The authors therefore defined the decisive criteria and indicators assessing the quality level of EMS emergency preparedness at major disaster with multiple victim incident. When developing the methodological procedure of the preparedness evaluation, an algorithm was chosen, based on the gradual verification of the evaluation criteria and indicators by an expert group. Some findings and recommendations based on a research carried out in EMS in individual regions of the Czech Republic are presented.
Irena Tušer; Svajonė Bekešienė; Josef Navrátil. Emergency management and internal audit of emergency preparedness of pre-hospital emergency care. Quality & Quantity 2020, 1 -13.
AMA StyleIrena Tušer, Svajonė Bekešienė, Josef Navrátil. Emergency management and internal audit of emergency preparedness of pre-hospital emergency care. Quality & Quantity. 2020; ():1-13.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIrena Tušer; Svajonė Bekešienė; Josef Navrátil. 2020. "Emergency management and internal audit of emergency preparedness of pre-hospital emergency care." Quality & Quantity , no. : 1-13.
Nowadays, tourism is a phenomenon and every state or continent is trying to offer the most attractive. Transport and related services are currently a key factor in the development and functioning of international tourism. Road transport is the most widespread transport worldwide. Development traffic studies report just under 1 billion motor vehicles in use worldwide today, 1.6 billion in 2020, and 2 billions by 2030. This article deals with the issue of traffic safety sustainability in road tunnels. It describes possible major emergencies that may occur in road tunnel traffic. Based on the analysis of statistical data from the Czech Republic, which deal with major emergencies in the past 13 years, causes of these emergencies, and findings from the screening exercises of the Integrated Rescue System units, measures are proposed to reduce the negative impacts of major emergencies and to improve crisis management, all with an emphasis on the safety of persons and property. The strategic goal is to reduce the number of casualties and the seriously injured in the Czech Republic to the average level of other EU countries. Based on the survey done in lessons to be learnt from training of Rescue System in the Czech Republic are presented.
Irena Tušer; Šárka Hošková-Mayerová. Traffic safety sustainability and population protection in road tunnels. Quality & Quantity 2020, 1 -22.
AMA StyleIrena Tušer, Šárka Hošková-Mayerová. Traffic safety sustainability and population protection in road tunnels. Quality & Quantity. 2020; ():1-22.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIrena Tušer; Šárka Hošková-Mayerová. 2020. "Traffic safety sustainability and population protection in road tunnels." Quality & Quantity , no. : 1-22.
Requirements for the training of security specialists, which also takes in the field of emergency management and protection of the public, are changing in response to the changing needs of society. The Czech Republic, acting through its competent ministries, has developed a Concept of Education in emergency Management which was approved by the National Security Council in 2001. Over time, however, these provisions have lost some of their relevance given the needs and rapidly changing demands of society and the security situation. The analysis that has been carried out has confirmed a lack of interconnection and uniformity within educational activities. Therefore, the plan of non-legislative governmental tasks adopted by the Czech Republic for the first half of 2017 aimed to optimise the rules for the training of specialists to bring them into line with current trends and needs. The aim of the updated provision was, in addition to the training of emergency management specialists, to enhance the co-ordination of educational processes, to provide consequent regular information support to trainers, and to provide the opportunity of acquiring lecturing skills and teaching experience. Subsequently, some concerns were voiced that target groups might not be interested in this training, and that the budget for this sector would be reduced. At present, however, adequate systematic branch management is currently lacking in this area in terms of both scale and continuity. The present chapter outlines the gradual development of the education system in emergency management and offers a comparison of educational concepts, emphasising their positive and negative aspects.
Irena Tušer. The Development of Education in Emergency Management. Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems 2019, 169 -175.
AMA StyleIrena Tušer. The Development of Education in Emergency Management. Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems. 2019; ():169-175.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIrena Tušer. 2019. "The Development of Education in Emergency Management." Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems , no. : 169-175.
The increase in incidents with mass casualties leads to adoption of number of necessary preventive measures in society, which aim to increase the level of preparedness of the intervening teams. The current level of preparedness of the Integrated Rescue System intervening components becomes evident after the management and evaluation of an emergency event. Individual disproportions in the actions taken are subsequently eliminated, e.g. in the form of updating the emergency documentation. In view of the activities provided by the Emergency Medical Services, which have a direct effect on saving lives and the health of people, it is necessary to eliminate these disproportions to the largest extent possible before an emergency event occurs. It is very important to find mechanisms, procedures or, if need be, criteria that will enable the assessment of the preparedness level of the Emergency Medical Services before the occurrence of an emergency event. This paper is, therefore, focused on the emergency preparedness units that play an important role in the training of the Emergency Medical Services to deal with emergency events. The paper proposes evaluation criteria and indicators that can be used for assessing preparedness within the Emergency Medical Services.
Irena Tušer; Josef Navrátil. Evaluation Criteria of Preparedness for Emergency Events Within the Emergency Medical Services. Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems 2019, 463 -472.
AMA StyleIrena Tušer, Josef Navrátil. Evaluation Criteria of Preparedness for Emergency Events Within the Emergency Medical Services. Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems. 2019; ():463-472.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIrena Tušer; Josef Navrátil. 2019. "Evaluation Criteria of Preparedness for Emergency Events Within the Emergency Medical Services." Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems , no. : 463-472.
The chapter concentrates on the health risk assessment of selected pollutants derived from residential fire simulated in fire container. The key interest is dedicated to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their toxicity and harmful effects on the health of firefighters, whose protection by breathing apparatus is insufficient. The final evaluation suggests measurements regarding the issue of the protection of people dealing with fire.
Josef Navrátil; Veronika Sadovská; Irena Švarcová. Health Risk Assessment of Combustion Products from Simulated Residential Fire. Mathematical-Statistical Models and Qualitative Theories for Economic and Social Sciences 2017, 15 -23.
AMA StyleJosef Navrátil, Veronika Sadovská, Irena Švarcová. Health Risk Assessment of Combustion Products from Simulated Residential Fire. Mathematical-Statistical Models and Qualitative Theories for Economic and Social Sciences. 2017; ():15-23.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJosef Navrátil; Veronika Sadovská; Irena Švarcová. 2017. "Health Risk Assessment of Combustion Products from Simulated Residential Fire." Mathematical-Statistical Models and Qualitative Theories for Economic and Social Sciences , no. : 15-23.
Irena Svarcova; Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova; Josef Navrátil. Crisis Management and Education in Health. ICEEPSY 2016 International Conference on Education and Educational Conference 2016, 1 .
AMA StyleIrena Svarcova, Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova, Josef Navrátil. Crisis Management and Education in Health. ICEEPSY 2016 International Conference on Education and Educational Conference. 2016; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIrena Svarcova; Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova; Josef Navrátil. 2016. "Crisis Management and Education in Health." ICEEPSY 2016 International Conference on Education and Educational Conference , no. : 1.