Human Factors Challenges in Emergency Management : Enhancing Individual and Team Performance in Fire and Emergency Services.

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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. This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research that has been conducted w...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Owen, Christine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2014.
©2014
Temas:
Emergency management > Australia.
Fire management > Australia.
First responders > Job stress > Australia.
Fire fighters > Job stress > Australia.
Human engineering.
Ergonomics
Incendies > Lutte contre > Australie.
Premiers répondants (Situations d'urgence) > Stress dû au travail > Australie.
Pompiers > Stress dû au travail > Australie.
Ergonomie.
ergonomics.
Emergency management
Fire fighters > Job stress
Fire management
Human engineering
Australia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art research that has been conducted within Australia, funded by the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre. As Karl Weick once commented, emergency events do not 'play by the rules' and these research chapters tell us something about a potential future world of work that is highly dynamic, interdependent and for which improvisation and c.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (255 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:9781409453062
1409453065
9781472405234
1472405234

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