Assessing risk in dynamic situations: lessons from fire service operations

Patrick A. Tissington; Rhona Flin

doi:10.1057/palgrave.rm.8240226

Assessing risk in dynamic situations: lessons from fire service operations

Patrick A. Tissington, Rhona Flin

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Fire Service personnel face risk on a daily basis, frequently working in extremely hazardous conditions—and the severity of the danger faced can fluctuate rapidly. The Fire Service has therefore become extremely experienced at managing dynamic risks. The aim of this article is to review techniques used in the UK fire service to attenuate the effects of risk and to discuss these with respect to organisations which experience dynamic risk in other fields—even if in less dramatic conditions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	43-51
Number of pages	9
Journal	Risk management
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.rm.8240226
Publication status	Published - Oct 2005

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Risk Management. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Tissington, Patrick A. and Flin, Rhona (2005). Assessing risk in dynamic situations: Lessons from fire service operations. Risk Management: an international journal, 7 (4), pp. 43-51] is available online at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/rm/journal/v7/n4/abs/8240226a.html

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dynamic risk
fire
decision-making

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Risk Management. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Tissington, Patrick A. and Flin, Rhona (2005). Assessing risk in dynamic situations: Lessons from fire service operations. Risk Management: an international journal, 7 (4), pp. 43-51] is available online at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/rm/journal/v7/n4/abs/8240226a.html
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