Background: Hospitals need to set up a higher level for preparing for disaster, the aim of this study is to assess the health care workers awareness about disaster management preparedness at Minia general Hospital. Subjects & Method: Research design: descriptive study design. Setting: The study carried out in El-Minia general hospital with bed capacity 225. Subjects: The Study included all the health care workers at Minia general hospital (n=450). Tool of study :it consisted of two parts as follows:-1st part personal data sheet ,2ndpart disasters management preparedness .Results: it appeared that all workers and the majority of nurses ,doctors, administrative employees, technician, mentioned that hospital didn't have disaster plan (100%,93.8%-92.1% .82.6%, 80.05%) respectively, all of study subjects mentioned that the hospital did not conduct training /workshops to educate staff members on disasters. Conclusion: The study indicated that knowledge of the health care workers about disaster management preparedness was poor, the majority of the study subjects did not have training or education about disaster preparedness in the hospital .Recommendations: Ministry of Health and hospital should formulate training programs about disaster management, and the hospital should have disaster management plan.