Challenges to response operations of the 2009 black Saturday bushfires

Title: Challenges to response operations of the 2009 black Saturday bushfires
Creator: Oloruntoba, Richard
Relation: Production and Operations Management Society 25th Annual Conference (POMS2014). Proceedings of the POMS 25th Annual Conference (Atlanta, GA 09-12 May, 2014)
Relation: http://www.pomsmeetings.org/EventsNet/?pr=1&ev=51
Publisher: Production and Operations Management Society
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2014
Description: The paper summarises operational issues contributing to high mortality during the “Black Saturday” bushfire disaster of 7th February 2009; and highlights emergency and disaster operations management implications. The paper is an outcome of research undertaken as part of a larger PhD project that utilised document and content analysis supplemented with face to face interviews with senior incident commanders. The research found that: poor information and communication, unusual fire behaviour and ambiguous evacuation policy were key challenges in emergency and disaster response operations. Further research into early warning risk communication, situation awareness and evacuation policy and logistics to reduce mortality is required.
Subject: disaster operations; humanitarian operations; humanitarian logistics
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1067090
Identifier: uon:18294
Language: eng

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