International Journal of Emergency Services: Volume 4 Issue 2

Crossing cultural boundaries: Reconsidering the cultural characteristics of police officers and ambulance staff

Sarah Charman

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the organisational cultures of two different parts of the emergency service, the police and the ambulance service.

New collaborations in daily emergency response: Applying cost-benefit analysis to new first response initiatives in the Swedish fire and rescue service

Åsa Weinholt, Tobias Andersson Granberg

The purpose of this paper is to analyse costs and benefits from new collaborations in daily emergency response and to demonstrate how cost-benefit analysis (CBA) can be used for…

Police/probation partnerships – the anticipated impact of “transforming rehabilitation”

Emily Evans

The purpose of this paper is to outline findings from research into Integrated Offender Management (IOM), an example of multi-agency working between the police, probation and drug…

Interprofessional collaboration during an emergency ward’s rounds

Kaija Collin, Sanna Herranen, Ulla Maija Valleala, Susanna Paloniemi

The purpose of this paper is to explore interprofessional collaboration during ward rounds on a Finnish emergency and infection ward from the viewpoint of three central…

Exploring prehospital C2-work during a mass gathering event

Erik G. Prytz, Jonas Rybing, Eric Carlström, Amir Khorram-Manesh, Carl-Oscar Jonson

The purpose of this paper is to explore the workload and shared workload awareness in a staff performing command and control (C2) work during a planned major incident (MI…

Motivation, sensation seeking, and the recruitment of volunteer firefighters

Stephen B. Perrott, Brandon D. Blenkarn

The purpose of this paper is to examine similarities and differences in motivational-type and sensation seeking tendencies in male and female firefighters and to determine how a…

A review of wildland fire smartphone applications: A classification study from Australia, USA, Canada and South Africa

Owen Kulemeka

Fire management professionals are using smartphone applications to communicate information about wildland fires. The purpose of this paper is to examine English language wildland…

A conceptual review of risk communication network for protecting immigrant knowledge workers

Namkyung Oh, Julia Beckett

The purpose of this paper is to define immigrant knowledge workers (IKWs) as a vulnerable population in the urban emergency management context, and explored how to provide public…

Editorial

Paresh Wankhade