The Level of Perception of Hospital Personnel on Waste Management and Waste Management in disasters: Case of Gümüşhane Province

The main objectives of disaster management are; to analyze the dangers faced by the society, to predict the situations that may be damaged by the event that may arise, to develop and implement strategies that will not allow secondary disasters. After disasters occur, different types of waste are generated depending on the type of disaster. If disaster waste is unmanageable, it can cause a secondary disaster. Hospitals, on the other hand, are health institutions that provide active service during disasters. Naturally, it is inevitable for hospitals to generate more waste in case of disasters. For this reason, hospitals should also have a waste management strategy for a possible disaster situation. Waste management, on the other hand, can be efficient with the employees' attitude, awareness and perception of waste. Within the scope of the research, a questionnaire was applied to the hospital staff. The questionnaire consists of three parts. The first part includes sociodemographic questions. The second part consists of Waste Management Awareness questions and Waste Management Awareness in Disasters questions. In the third part, there are Waste Management Attitude questions. The data of the study were analyzed with the SPSS 21 package program. It was determined that the awareness level of the participants was high, and their attitude level was medium. There is no significant difference in the mean score of the awareness level of the participants in terms of gender and age factors. Significant results were found in factors such as working time and education level.