Emergency Management Analysis Research Articles

Praćenje aktivnosti, vrednovanje postignutih rezultata i analiza reagovanja, kao deo ciklusa upravljanja vanrednim situacijama

The consequences of a natural or other disaster will largely depend on the efficiency of emergency management. We are witnesses that, regardless of the adopted legislation and the great effort made to regulate the protection and rescue system and constantly improve it, emergency management does not always give the expected results. One of the reasons for such a response to disasters is insufficient commitment to continuous monitoring of all implemented activities of engaged entities and protection and rescue forces, lack of evaluation of achieved results in all four phases of management and unsystematic analysis. This paper will point out the necessary need for a systematic approach in monitoring, objective evaluation of results and analysis of emergency management with all actors involved. The lessons learned and the adoption of adequate key conclusions, lessons, recommendations and all adopted measures for improvement would greatly increase the effectiveness and efficiency for more successful emergency management at all levels in the future. The paper will also present the positive experiences of monitoring, analysis of activities and evaluation of the achieved results of district and municipal headquarters for emergency situations at command-simulation exercises at the district level organized in the past period.

Assessment of military preparedness for naturogenic threat: the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic

This article deals with the provision of cooperation of the Army of the Czech Republic with other units of rescue teams in the implementation of rescue and liquidation work in the regions of the Czech Republic in non-military crisis situations. At the present time of the global pandemic of covid-19 and the associated mass deployment of forces and resources of the primary and secondary units of the rescue system, the required effective cooperation in practice has proved necessary. The paper deals with the analysis of emergency management in a state of emergency in order to contribute to the improvement of civil-military cooperation. Based on the results of the research survey, the authors proposed evaluation criteria for determining the level of emergency preparedness of the forces and resources of the Army of the Czech Republic.

Emergency decision-making combining cumulative prospect theory and group decision-making

With respect to the characteristic of risk and the potential evolvement of scenarios in emergency management analysis, this study proposes an emergency decision-making method with interval probability based on cumulative prospect theory and group decision-making. Under emergency risk environment, there is a tremendous need to consider decision-maker’s psychological behavior which affects the decision results. In addition, an emergency decision generally involves joint participation among departments, which inevitably brings about group decision-making. Therefore, aiming at decision problems in emergency management, this paper provides an algorithm of emergency group decision-making considering psychological behaviors. For illustration and verification, a numerical example and two comparisons are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed method. The contribution of this study is characterized by three aspects. First, cumulative prospect theory is introduced to quantify the impact of psychological behaviors. Second, group decision-making is considered as a think tank, which makes the decision more persuasive than single-person methods. Third, this study proposes a novel intelligent optimization algorithm, plant growth simulation algorithm, to integrate the different individual evaluations.

Analysing mine emergency management needs: a cognitive work analysis approach

In this paper, we argue that cognitive work analysis (CWA), a framework for analysing, modelling and designing complex work systems, is an effective approach to determine the emergency management needs of mine operators. To demonstrate, we applied work domain analysis (WDA), the first phase of the CWA framework, to the analysis of the mine emergency management needs of control room operators in an Australian underground coal mine context. Overall, we found that CWA supported a holistic approach to the analysis of emergency management needs by capturing requirements that involved (a) emergency and routine operations, and (b) social and technical aspects of the work. We conclude with implications for the development of procedures, technology and training in underground coal mine emergency management systems.

Analysis of Emergency Management in Nigeria

Analysis of Emergency Management in Nigeria