- Title:
-
How Well Are Your Incident Management Teams Coping?
- Date:
- September 2008
- Organisations
- BCRC
- Authors:
- Jan Douglas; Andrew Short
- Location:
- Australia, Australia
Overview
The International Bushfire Research Conference 2008 - incorporating The 15th annual AFAC Conference, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
This paper reports on findings drawn from informal observations conducted of numerous incident management teams operations and the preliminary findings from a PhD study. This paper will argue that work-related emotions are embedded in work activity and therefore have important consequences for shared situational awareness and teamwork.
Shared situational awareness constructs have important attributes for operators in high performance, high reliability work (e.g. incident management teams). Whilst research is undertaken on shared situational awareness, the mediating role emotion plays in shared situational awareness is an important yet overlooked area. Although situation awareness training is being progressed in some agencies to varying degrees it is proposed that an enhanced understanding of the emotional factor of incident management teams operations will result in improved incident outcomes.
It is hoped that findings will be developed into tools that can be used by training practitioners to enhance both training and teamwork effectiveness.
