The aim of the current review wasto study the existing knowledge about decision-making
and to identify and describe validated training tools. A comprehensive literature review was …

IntroductionIt is not known what constitutes the optimal emergency management system, nor
is there a consensus on how effectiveness and efficiency in emergency response should be …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to study why collaboration among police, fire, and
ambulance services is minimised at accident scenes. Design/methodology/approach …

This article aims to study whether exercises contribute to learning that can be useful in
actual emergency work. It reports the findings of a study about professional emergency …

After crises have occurred, limitations in crisis management capacity often cause surprise
and frustration. An explanation that frequently recurs in evaluations is a lack of efficient …

The purpose of this article is to analyze what professional emergency personnel learn
during collaboration exercises and the benefits of what they have learned. Observations (n …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to identify what is practiced during collaboration
exercises and possible facilitators for inter-organisational collaboration …

The degree to which exercises improve the collaboration among different organizations
during an emergency is under debate. This study aims to contribute to the scarce research …

Scientists have extensively debated the effectiveness of different emergency response
management models, with a particular focus on the “command and control” versus …

Safety and Reliability–Theory and Applications contains the contributions presented at the
27th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2017, Portorož, Slovenia, June 18 …