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Tools for monitoring teams in emergency management: EMBAM and TBM

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posted on 2023-05-19, 01:26 authored by Bearman, C, Rainbird, S, Benjamin BrooksBenjamin Brooks, Christine OwenChristine Owen, Steven CurninSteven Curnin
Effective teamwork is an important component of emergency management. However, from time-to-time teamwork may break down, particularly in a complex system like emergency management. It is important that people who have operational oversight of teams are able to detect if a team has a problem and can help the team modify its functioning. A literature review identified methods of monitoring teams from the position of operational oversight. Based on this review two methods of team monitoring were chosen for further evaluation. A preliminary evaluation study of each tool during a simulated emergency exercise suggests they both have potential. This is the first stage of an ongoing research program where team monitoring tools will be further developed using iterative design cycles of development and evaluation. In this way methods of monitoring teams from the position of operational oversight that are effective in an emergency management context can be developed.

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Bushfire and Natural Hazard CRC

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Publication title

Australian Journal of Emergency Management

Volume

32

Pagination

40-43

ISSN

1324-1540

Department/School

Australian Maritime College

Publisher

Emergency Management Australia

Place of publication

Australia

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Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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  • Open

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Public services policy advice and analysis

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