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Community preparedness towards major accident events in Gebeng Industrial Area, Kuantan / Marliza Ismail

By:

Marliza Ismail [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Kuantan, Pahang : UMP, 2018Description: xiii, 81 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. + 1 CD-ROMContent type:

text

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unmediated
computer

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volume
computer disc

ISBN:

THE0001384(Local)

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Dissertation note: Project Paper (Bachelor of Occupation Safety and Health with Honors) -- Universiti Malaysia Pahang – 2018 Abstract: This thesis deals with community preparedness towards major accident events that may occur at Taman Balok Perdana, Kuantan. The main objective of this thesis was to utilize the result of the study in order to improve the community preparedness towards the major accident events. Furthermore, the first objective is to measure the level of community awareness and knowledge towards major accident hazards. The first objective was completed by using questionnaire. From those sources it was identified that the community had high and moderate awareness and knowledge regarding it. The method used was walkthrough observation, semi-structured interview in focus group discussion and document review for the second and third objective was achieved which is to identify the existing practices of community organization towards the emergency preparedness and to identify the decision process made by the community leader during emergency response on major accident events. However, there is no specific practices that been done related to major accident events and the decision process from the community leader only and they was depending on local authority for further action. In order to increase the preparedness of the community,some recommendation had been proposed such as by doing awareness campaign, increase the involvement of stakeholder and community, preparing a contingency plan, and developt a community based disaster risk management (CBDRM). Therefore, the outcome of the study can be used by responsible stakeholder in order to improve more on community preparedness.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Final Year Report	UMPLIB GAMBANG	FTeK .M37 2018 r Bc. (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Not for loan		0000122862
Final Year Report	UMPLIB GAMBANG	CD 11314 \| FTeK .M37 2018 r Bc. (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Not for loan		0000122863

Faculty of Engineering Technology

Project Paper (Bachelor of Occupation Safety and Health with Honors) -- Universiti Malaysia Pahang – 2018

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This thesis deals with community preparedness towards major accident events that may occur at Taman Balok Perdana, Kuantan. The main objective of this thesis was to utilize the result of the study in order to improve the community preparedness towards the major accident events. Furthermore, the first objective is to measure the level of community awareness and knowledge towards major accident hazards. The first objective was completed by using questionnaire. From those sources it was identified that the community had high and moderate awareness and knowledge regarding it. The method used was walkthrough observation, semi-structured interview in focus group discussion and document review for the second and third objective was achieved which is to identify the existing practices of community organization towards the emergency preparedness and to identify the decision process made by the community leader during emergency response on major accident events. However, there is no specific practices that been done related to major accident events and the decision process from the community leader only and they was depending on local authority for further action. In order to increase the preparedness of the community,some recommendation had been proposed such as by doing awareness campaign, increase the involvement of stakeholder and community, preparing a contingency plan, and developt a community based disaster risk management (CBDRM). Therefore, the outcome of the study can be used by responsible stakeholder in order to improve more on community preparedness.