Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

Mechanisms for sharing information in a disaster situation have drastically changed due to
new technological innovations throughout the world. The use of social media applications …

Building fire emergencies are considered a high-risk domain for significant loss of lives and
property. Accurate information and Situational Awareness (SA) enable fire responders to …

Despite the recognition that information system acceptance is an important antecedent of
effective emergency management, there has been comparatively very little research …

Massive amounts of data and information are exchanged during the response phase of
disaster management. A large body of contemporary research has indicated that most of …

Several mobile applications (apps) targeted for use by the public during disasters already
exist. A large amount of research has been conducted to investigate the functionalities of …

Mobile apps have the potential to aid disaster response by providing an avenue to distribute
relevant and time-critical information to the public. Disaster apps already exist in the app …

Emergency management controllers throughout the developed world use various
information technologies to help them manage emergencies. These emergencies can …

Advanced technologies, such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and the Internet of
Things (IoT), can supply information for decision-making during a fire emergency. However …

This study aimed to assess, from an end-user perspective, the potential role of
reconfigurable wireless networks in responding to a fire-in-tunnel incident. The study was …