Evaluation a City Emergency Management Exercise for Organizational Learning

Peter Jackovics ()
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Peter Jackovics: National Directorate General for Disaster Management, Budapest, Hungary

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, 2019, vol. 17, issue 1-B, 177-186

Abstract: All relevant emergency management services are necessary for a Smart City to achieve public protection and property safety in response to a major disaster or an unplanned event, including simulated flooding exercise measures. It is the first time that a Safety through Organizational Learning methodology has been used for Evaluating a City Emergency Management Field Exercise. A city's ability to respond effectively to a natural disaster e.g. flood defence heavily depends on emergency management's preparation for successful responses. An efficient way to test the level of preparation of City Emergency Management is to hold a Field Exercise in a vulnerable city. Analysing with Safety through Organizational Learning allows the identification of concrete alternative corrective actions/measures by which the probability that similar events occur in the future can radically be reduced. Furthermore, such measures help organisational learning, thereby contributing to the development and maintenance of a long-term, safe organisational culture.

Keywords: city emergency management; exercise; SOL methodology; public safety; evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C83 H84 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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