.... Subsequent organisational changes and the introduction of new community safety services dynamically altered the role of fire fighters and introduced new roles into these organisations. The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues relating to an evolving fire service workforce and the tensions present...

...Joop Koppenjan; Arie van Sluis; Frans-Bauke van der Meer; Ben Kuipers; Kees van Paridon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify critical success factors for the management of complex change processes in fire service organizations and to apply these in a case study of the Rotterdam...

... Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Fire service Questionnaire Evaluation Firefighter Rescue forces Vocational training evaluation Leadership positions in fire departments require a wide range of skills to handle challenging operating conditions...

... and development of Fire and Rescue Service incident commanders. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 As fire service incidents are dynamic and their timings unpredictable, it is very difficult to assess the candidates naturalistic decision making (NDM) within their natural sphere of work (Alison...

... are important to reducing individual firefighter injury experience. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Safety Fire service Safety climate Firefighter Injury Line-of-duty Firefighting is dangerous work, but even acknowledging this, the rates of line-of-duty (LOD) deaths and injuries...

... roles is largely derived from the disciplines of management, statistics, and economics that is rarely concerned with the components of emergency situations, such as time-pressure or life or death situations (Flin, 2008). This is not a research gap limited to the fire service, with a study of military...