TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial and behavioural aspects of early incident response
T2 - outcomes from an international workshop
AU - Carter, Holly
AU - Gauntlett, Louis
AU - Rubin, G. James
AU - Russell, David
AU - Genereux, Melissa
AU - Lemyre, Louise
AU - Blain, Peter
AU - Byers, Mark
AU - Amlôt, Richard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The likelihood of major incidents and disasters has increased in recent years, due to climate change, urbanisation, and acts of terrorism. Effective management of such incidents is crucial to ensure that members of the public are able and willing to take appropriate protective actions. The workshop described in this paper brought together researchers, practitioners and policy makers with expertise in emergency planning, preparedness and response to generate recommendations for major incident management. Workshop participants agreed that understanding the psychosocial aspects of major incidents is crucial to effective incident response, and a number of key themes were raised during workshop discussions. Based on these themes, four key recommendations can be made for informing planning and preparedness for major incidents.
AB - The likelihood of major incidents and disasters has increased in recent years, due to climate change, urbanisation, and acts of terrorism. Effective management of such incidents is crucial to ensure that members of the public are able and willing to take appropriate protective actions. The workshop described in this paper brought together researchers, practitioners and policy makers with expertise in emergency planning, preparedness and response to generate recommendations for major incident management. Workshop participants agreed that understanding the psychosocial aspects of major incidents is crucial to effective incident response, and a number of key themes were raised during workshop discussions. Based on these themes, four key recommendations can be made for informing planning and preparedness for major incidents.
KW - CBRN
KW - emergency responders
KW - Incident response
KW - psychosocial
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128247867&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/23779497.2018.1556112
DO - 10.1080/23779497.2018.1556112
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85128247867
SN - 2377-9497
VL - 3
SP - 28
EP - 36
JO - Global Security - Health, Science and Policy
JF - Global Security - Health, Science and Policy
IS - 1
ER -
