Securing Operational Capability for Exceptional Circumstances: How Do Professional First Responders Respond to the Unexpected?

Heino, Ossi; Kalalahti, Joanna

doi:10.3390/su13116418

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“…Thus, a flipside of the latter is the absence of skills in interpreting or reading situations that potentially deviate from the expected ones. For example, Heino and Kalalahti (2021) and Heino (2021) propose that acting effectively in unexpected situations where the stakes are high seems to require distinctive cognitive abilities from experts. Those abilities manifest in the personal inclination to be suspicious of the fitness of competence of plans, manuals, job descriptions, and task prescriptions to the situation at hand, as well as in the attempt to develop their operational capabilities to be increasingly independent of the availability of standard resources.…”

Section: Preparedness and Attaching Events And Issues With Merit Wort...mentioning

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How considering memory as an analogy to preparedness reveals its weaknesses

Heino

Huotari

2022

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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Threats that fully escape our attention pose a potential, but also a true and invisible, danger to us. They should stand out as the main concern for practitioners who are responsible for the state and level of preparedness. However, to address them, we should first grasp them as pure possibilities. Figuring them out requires tools. This article introduces analogies as a potential tool for this task and analyses the concept of preparedness itself with it. By using memory as a source analogy, the article enables us to consider preparedness as a potential source of vulnerability—it reveals how we can help ourselves in becoming better prepared by scrutinizing the current practices by systematically analyzing the presumptions underpinning them. The vulnerabilities that are most likely to escape our attention are the ones that have become a constitutive part of our very thinking of preparedness. Better preparedness without a systematically and thoroughly scrutinized concept of preparedness will never be able to fulfill the promise it signals to the public. This article outlines one way to pursue such an understanding and employs it as well.

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How considering memory as an analogy to preparedness reveals its weaknesses

Heino

Huotari

2022

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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“…Intuition will be the primary default strategy with rationality used only as necessary. Heino and Kalalahti (2021) also commented on the use of expert intuition in critical high-stakes environment and noted that expert intuition was very valuable in being able to detect anomalies in a given situation, helping them to deviate from existing practices and policies when necessary.…”

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Holistic View of Intuition and Analysis in Leadership Decision-Making and Problem-Solving

Hallo

Nguyen

2021

Administrative Sciences

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Making decisions is a key task for leaders and managers. Senior leaders are currently exposed to increasing amounts of data which they must process quickly in our current dynamic world. Complex factors in the business world are not always best approached through an analytical framework. Using tacit knowledge gained through intuition can enable a more holistic understanding of the deep nature of today’s problems. This paper takes an expansive view of decision-making with intuition right at the centre and canvasses understandings of intuition arising from philosophy, psychology, Western and Eastern beliefs; and proposes a model that relates intuition to other problem-solving approaches. The paper presents the results of interviews with senior leaders who must make difficult decisions in complex turbulent environments. The interview schedule is based on questions raised in a prior literature search concerning the relationship between intuition and analysis in complexity decision-making and problem-solving, the usefulness to this group of respondents, the possibilities of combining both approaches and any conflict arising from that combination, and understandings of the concept of intuition by these respondents. The resultant model presents a visual description of a process that moves from exterior assessment achieved via sensing and analysis, through to deeper understandings and a more holistic discernment gained through intuition. The model has the potential to assist leaders faced with difficult-to-solve problems in providing a better understanding of the steps involved in tackling problems of increasing levels of complexity.

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“…Since 2017, the number of studies related to hydrogen safety has been increasing; however, limited research has been conducted on effective incident response [5]. Therefore, new standard operating procedures and related resources must be prepared [6,7].…”

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Jet Flame Risk Analysis for Safe Response to Hydrogen Vehicle Accidents

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With an increase in the use of eco-friendly vehicles such as hybrid, electric, and hydrogen vehicles in response to the global climate crisis, accidents related to these vehicles have also increased. Numerical analysis was performed to optimize the safety of first responders responding to hydrogen vehicle accidents wherein hydrogen jet flames occur. The influence range of the jet flame generated through a 1.8-mm-diameter nozzle was analyzed based on five discharge angles (90, 75, 60, 45, and 30°) between the road surface and the downward vertical. As the discharge angle decreases toward the road surface, the risk area that could cause damage moves from the center of the vehicle to the rear; at a discharge angle of 90°, the range above 9.5 kW/m2 was 1.59 m and 4.09 m to the front and rear of the vehicle, respectively. However, at a discharge angle of 30°, it was not generated at the front but was 10.39 m to the rear. In response to a hydrogen vehicle accident, first responders should perform rescue activities approaching from a diagonal direction to the vehicle front to minimize injury risk. This study can be used in future hydrogen vehicle design to develop the response strategy of the first responders.

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Securing Operational Capability for Exceptional Circumstances: How Do Professional First Responders Respond to the Unexpected?

Cited by 3 publications

References 65 publications

How considering memory as an analogy to preparedness reveals its weaknesses

How considering memory as an analogy to preparedness reveals its weaknesses

Holistic View of Intuition and Analysis in Leadership Decision-Making and Problem-Solving

Jet Flame Risk Analysis for Safe Response to Hydrogen Vehicle Accidents

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