...Natalie Roche; Jodi Oakman; Susan Darzins; Rwth Stuckey Purpose Emergency management volunteers (EMVs) are frequently exposed to incidents involving dying and death, yet psychosocial risk management strategies remain uneven and predominantly reactive. Adopting a systems approach, this study...

...Katarzyna Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek; Barbara Zyzak Purpose This article explores how to ensure effective digital emergency management. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on organizational information processing theory and design science research methodology, the research employs Interpretive...

... during emergency management; thus, qualitative approaches are needed. Practical implications During emergency management, health facilities need to cooperate by sharing information, building capacity to increase their responsiveness and flexibility. This should be done by sharing equipment, tools...

... such as property damage and indirect costs such as lost wages and business interruption. Anas M.M. Awad can be contacted at: 35122701@mahasiswa.itb.ac.id Fire station service area Travel time Delay time Optimal location GIS network analysis Emergency management © Emerald Publishing Limited...

...Sten Torpan; Sten Hansson; Kati Orru; Mark Rhinard; Lucia Savadori; Pirjo Jukarainen; Tor-Olav Nævestad; Sunniva Frislid Meyer; Abriel Schieffelers; Gabriella Lovasz Purpose This paper offers an empirical overview of European emergency managers' institutional arrangements and guidelines for using...

... CBRNe Disaster preparedness Emergency care Emergency management Accident and emergency department Primary care We conducted a qualitative descriptive study using semi-structured individual interviews based on vignettes. Vignettes are short stories, hypothetical scenarios or descriptions...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Humanitarian logistics Disaster management Emergency management Disaster preparedness Humanitarian supply chain This paper identifies the issues and challenges in humanitarian logistics and developed a framework for effectively managing...

..., as the most critical capabilities to develop for effective emergency management. Research limitations/implications This study discussed the value of consistent and careful management of the collaborative relationship. This study is context-specific in disaster type (Hurricane) and locality (Louisiana...

... Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Communication Emergency management Disaster communication Amateur radio Amateur radio supports communications when all other mediums of communication fail. Recently, there is a growing trend of relying...

... government failure, business corruption, lack of voluntary activity, and negligence of coordination among stakeholders, among others. We continued to ask which factors have to be included in the range of negative emergency response culture to various emergency managers via a Korean SNS (e.g. Disaster...

...Rasmus Dahlberg Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the social network in an emergency management organization during a large exercise held in Greenland in 2016. Inspired by approaches in business and organizational studies the aim is to investigate the flow of information through...

...Kyungwoo Kim; Kyujin Jung; Kenneth Chilton Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the effects of social media use on the resilience of organizations involved in emergency response. While social media has been utilized as a critical tool in the field of emergency management, few...

...Namkyung Oh; Julia Beckett Purpose – 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 safety services to IKWs. Due to nomadic features such as high mobility, spatio...

... developments and match its communication more effectively to the affected communities. Willem Treurniet can be contacted at: willem.treurniet@tno.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Emergency management Crisis management Crisis communication Societal impact In 2011 a fire...

... Emergency management Fire risk Responding firefighters Toronto While there are some publications using ANN in emergency services and fire incident analysis (Rajagopalan et al., 2008 ; Setzler et al., 2009), there is no evidence that any has been applied to predict the optimal...

...Helen Sinclair; Emma E.H. Doyle; David M. Johnston; Douglas Paton Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute information and recommendations that could better equip emergency managers to prepare for and respond to emergencies and disasters, with a focus on improving their decision‐making...