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Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management - Enhancing Individual and Team Performance in Fire and Emergency Services (Paperback)
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Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management - Enhancing Individual and Team Performance in Fire and Emergency Services (Paperback)
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This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research that
has been conducted within Australia, funded by the Bushfire
Cooperative Research Centre. The chapters source and contextualize
their own research practice within the context of the international
research literature. Therefore, while the research has occurred
within Australia it will be of particular interest to scholars,
students and practitioners in a number of other countries,
particularly within the United States of America and in Europe. The
fire and emergency services is a particularly large industry - in
Australia alone it employs 250,000 personnel - yet there is very
little by way of published human factors books addressing this
sector directly. Emergency events frequently involve problems for
which there may be unanticipated consequences and highly
interdependent consequential effects. In short, emergency events
are not necessarily as containable as may be work in other domains.
As Karl Weick once commented, emergency events do not 'play by the
rules'. This means that these research chapters tell us something
about a potential future world of work that is highly dynamic,
interdependent and for which improvisation and critical thinking
and problem-solving are necessary pre-requisites. The discussions
about individual and team performance will also be pertinent to
others working in similar high-reliability, high-consequence
domains. The chapters connect into an integrated body of work about
individual and group performance and their limitations.
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