International Journal of Emergency Services: Volume 8 Issue 2

Semi-professionals: emergency response as an additional task in current occupations

Kayvan Yousefi Mojir, Sofie Pilemalm, Tobias Andersson Granberg

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to identify occupational groups who can act as semi-professional first responders, in order to shorten the response times to frequent…

Rescue responses during a full moon and Friday 13th

Ian Greatbatch, Robert J. Koester, Andrea L. Kleinsmith

It is a well held belief that the full moon period and the date Friday 13th has an impact on the number of emergency call outs for emergency services. The purpose of this paper is…

Old dogs, new tricks? A Norwegian study on whether previous collaboration exercise experience impacted participant’s perceived exercise effect

Jarle Lowe Sorensen, Eric D. Carlström, Leif Inge Magnussen, Tae-eun Kim, Atle Martin Christiansen, Glenn-Egil Torgersen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the perceived effects of a maritime cross-sector collaboration exercise. More specifically, this study aims to examine whether past…

Organisational factors: impacting on health for ambulance personnel

Juliet Harrison

The purpose of this paper is to establish if organisational factors are leading to a negative effect on ambulance personnel’s health. In recent years, frontline ambulance…

Interventions to reduce sickness absence among healthcare workers: a systematic review

Laura Simmons, Arwel W. Jones, Niro Siriwardena, Christopher Bridle

Sickness absence is a major concern for healthcare services and their employees with healthcare workers having higher sickness absence rates compared to the general population…

Opportunities and challenges for multi-professional units in rural areas

Teija Norri-Sederholm, Minna Joensuu, Johanna Lammintakanen

The purpose of this paper is to investigate opportunities and challenges for multi-professional paramedic-firefighter units in small municipalities in Finland.

Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNe) events: Systematic literature review of evacuation, triage and decontamination for vulnerable people

Sue Hignett, Graham Hancox, Mary Edmunds Otter

The purpose of this paper is to systematically review published literature for the research question “what issues are considered (and changes made) for vulnerable groups as part…

Role of Facebook as a disaster communication media

Prasadi Kanchana Jayasekara

The purpose of this paper is to identify the types of contents shared through Facebook during different phases of disaster management.

Motivational implications leading to the continued commitment of volunteer firefighters

Laurie Gazzale

The purpose of this paper is to explore the connection between motivation and the continued commitment of volunteer firefighters.