International Journal of Emergency Services: Volume 3 Issue 2

Enabling organizational learning from rescue operations : The Swedish rescue services incident reporting system

Sofie Pilemalm, Dennis Andersson, Kayvan Yousefi Mojir

The purpose of this paper is to explore the re-development process of the Swedish Rescue Services Incident Reporting System from an organizational learning perspective with the…

Eliciting experts’ knowledge in emergency response organizations

Justin Okechukwu Okoli, Gordon Weller, John Watt

Experienced fire ground commanders are known to make decisions in time-pressured and dynamic environments. The purpose of this paper is to report some of the tacit knowledge and…

Incident command training: the introspect model

Katherine Jane Lamb, Jim Davies, Richard Bowley, John-Paul Williams

The purpose of this paper is to present the use of simulation in both the development and assessment of Fire & Rescue Service incident commanders. Continuous development and…

A study identifying factors influencing decision making in dynamic emergencies like urban fire and rescue settings

David Launder, Chad Perry

There has been little research about incident management decision making within real-life, dynamic emergencies such as urban fire settings. So this research addresses the research…

Multi-response roles in emergency response personnel : Insights from New South Wales, Australia

Greg Linsdell, Colin Rogers

The purpose of this paper is to assess the decision-making process of multi-role emergency response volunteers and their preferences for which agency they would choose to…

Emergency responders’ experiences of and expectations regarding decontamination

Holly Elisabeth Carter, John Drury, G. James Rubin, Richard Williams, Richard Amlôt

There is an assumption in emergency planning that the public will “panic” or refuse to comply in the event of mass decontamination. This assumption has serious implications for…

Editorial

Kirsten Greenhalgh, Peter Murphy, Paresh Wankhade