Emergency Response
Research Topic
Language: English
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Improving understanding of the activities carried out in the fire system and their effectiveness.
- How can policing use advances in robotics to reduce or remove the need for police officers to enter hazardous environments e.g., water, fire, electrical, natural disaster, CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear)? Further, how can a seamless and secure operation be enabled in such environments?
- How to use technologies for communicating disaster risks to the population (covering early warning, risk information, stimulating risk reduction behaviour)?
- How do we better prepare for the scale and frequency of future incidents? Including assessing our collective capacity and integrating incident management
- How can finance, logistics and other data be brought together to accurately track the ordering and delivery of emergency supplies through supply chains including medical supplies?
- Making use of the location of responders and their proximity to risks and hazards in real time.
- How can public messaging on transport systems be used to best effect to safeguard transport users following a security incident or natural hazard disruption?
- What are the most appropriate methodologies and indicators to measure the benefits of lowering the risk of catastrophic events, including fire, flood, structural failure?
- What examples are there of methods that can best help the department to manage future uncertainty (such as a pandemic), to improve its performance and resilience?
- What makes communities resilient to natural hazards and other crises? What can we learn from the coronavirus pandemic about the loss of resilience and protecting vulnerable communities to inform future response to crises? What are the important social dimensions for achieving environmental and infrastructure resilience?
- Understanding the current and future demands on fire and rescue services and the capability needed to meet those demands.
- How can we best stress test the UK’s playbooks for different risks becoming crises in an ongoing way?
- First responder capabilities and approaches to decontamination and recovery.
- likelihood of low frequency, high impact catastrophic events or major accidents?
- Opportunities and capabilities to intervene and mitigate risks.