Fire Department Turnout Times: A Contextual Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Reglen ◽  
Daniel S. Scheller
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Causal Model ◽  
National Fire Protection Association ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Fire Departments ◽  
Fire Station ◽  
Per Se

AbstractFire departments nationwide seek to decrease their turnout times to emergencies. Turnout time is the time from which a dispatcher alerts a fire unit of an emergency to when the unit leaves the fire station. As such, it is an integral component of emergency response time. The National Fire Protection Association has set a 60 second standard for effective turnout. We examine how station design of dormitory location and the time of day of the emergency affect turnout times. Previous research indicates that the location of a station’s dormitory is major component of turnout time. Moving beyond descriptive statistics, we present a causal model and interactive hypothesis. Contrary to previous research, we hypothesize that the effect of station design is conditional upon the time of emergency – that above-the-garage dormitories have longer turnout times during the graveyard shift. We find that station design, per se, does not affect turnout time. We find that the effect of station design on turnout time is conditional upon the time of day of the emergency. Above-the-garage dormitories experience 10.7% longer turnout times, but during the graveyard shift. Across all station designs, the graveyard shift increases turnout times between 50.8% and 58.9%.

scholarly journals Applying the Social Vulnerability Index as a Leading Indicator to Protect Fire-Based Emergency Medical Service Responders’ Health

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 8049
Author(s):  
Emily J. Haas ◽  
Alexa Furek ◽  
Megan Casey ◽  
Katherine N. Yoon ◽  
Susan M. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Fire Departments ◽  
Social Vulnerability Index ◽  
Response Planning ◽  
Leading Indicator ◽  
Increased Risk

During emergencies, areas with higher social vulnerability experience an increased risk for negative health outcomes. However, research has not extrapolated this concept to understand how the workers who respond to these areas may be affected. Researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) merged approximately 160,000 emergency response calls received from three fire departments during the COVID-19 pandemic with the CDC’s publicly available Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to examine the utility of SVI as a leading indicator of occupational health and safety risks. Multiple regressions, binomial logit models, and relative weights analyses were used to answer the research questions. Researchers found that higher social vulnerability on household composition, minority/language, and housing/transportation increase the risk of first responders’ exposure to SARS-CoV-2. Higher socioeconomic, household, and minority vulnerability were significantly associated with response calls that required emergency treatment and transport in comparison to fire-related or other calls that are also managed by fire departments. These results have implications for more strategic emergency response planning during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as improving Total Worker Health® and future of work initiatives at the worker and workplace levels within the fire service industry.

Confined Space Emergency Response: Assessing Employer and Fire Department Practices

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Wilson ◽  
Heather N. Madison ◽  
Stephen B. Healy
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Confined Space

scholarly journals Pengaruh Jaminan Kesehatan Kerja Dan Kompensasi Finansial Terhadap Motivasi Kerja Pegawai (Studi Pada Dinas Pemadam Kebakaran Dan Penanggulangan Bencana Kota Bandung)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47
Author(s):  
Lukman Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
A Company

ABSTRACT: Human resources' existence plays a significant role in the success of a company, so many companies realize that human resources in the company can provide a competitive advantage. In the company of labor is the motor of the company, the assets of the company, which is an investment for a company to increase productivity. As a company asset, the welfare guarantee given by the company to workers or employees is an obligation that must be adjusted to their needs. Also, to realize the goals of the company, of course, there needs to be compensated as one of the motivations for employees In this study, the author used a research method based on descriptive statistics with a quantitative approach. The sample in this study consisted of 30 employees of the Bandung City Fire Department. The analysis used was multiple regression analysis. Based on the results of the study, it was found that the Occupational Health Insurance and Financial Compensation jointly had an effect of 85.8% on employee work motivation. The remaining 14.2% caused   ABSTRAK: Keberadaan sumber daya manusia memiliki peranan besar bagi kesuksesan sebuahperusahaan, sehingga banyak perusahaan menyadari bahwa unsur manusia dalam perusahaan itu dapat memberikan keunggulan daya saing. Di dalam perusahaan tenaga kerja merupakan motor penggerakperusahaan, aset perusahaan yang merupakan investasi bagi suatu perusahaan untuk meningkatkan pruduktivitas. Sebagai aset perusahaan, maka jaminan kesejahteraan yang diberikan oleh perusahaan terhadap buruh atau karyawan adalah kewajiban yang harus disesuaikan dengan kebutuhannya. Selain itu guna mewujudkan tujuan perusahaan, tentu perlu adanya kompensasisebagai salah satu motivasi bagi para karyawan Dalam penelitian ini Penulis menggunakan metode penelitian berdasarkan statistik deskriptif dengan pendekatan kuantitatif, sample dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 30orang pegawai Dinas Pemadam Kebakaran Kota Bandung, analisis yang digunakan yaitu analisis regresi berganda. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian diketahui Jaminan Kesehatan Kerja Dan Kompensasi Finansial secara bersama-sama berpengaruh sebesar 85,8% terhadap motivasi kerja pegawai. Adapun sebesar 14,2% sisanya disebabkan oleh variabel-variabel lain diluar variabel tersebut yang tidak dilibatkan dalam penelitian ini.

Towards Understanding the Perceptions of Information Professionals about Competitive Intelligence Work

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (02) ◽  
pp. 1450011
Author(s):  
Tao Jin ◽  
Boryung Ju
Keyword(s):  
Causal Model ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Perceived Involvement ◽  
Corporate Information ◽  
Work Domain

Little is known about how information professionals perceive themselves in the competitive intelligence (CI) work domain. There is a dearth of scholarly attention on their social identities in CI, their involvement with CI, and how their engagement impacts the usage of corporate information agency resources by CI practitioners. The goal of this study is to create a benchmark knowledge base addressing these issues. We developed five constructs — awareness of CI functioning in the organisation, perceived identity toward CI, perceived involvement in CI work, frequency of interactivities with CI practitioners, and perceived usage of corporate information agency resources — and attempted to propose and validate a causal model connecting these constructs. Data were collected through a survey of 86 information professionals, and analyzed using descriptive statistics and partial least squares (PLS). Our major findings include: few respondents identified themselves exclusively as CI professionals; the respondents collectively had a low CI-involvement level; perceived identity influenced perceived involvement; and both perceived involvement and frequency of interactivities influenced the usage of corporate information agency resources. These findings could influence the design of future CI programs and the education programs for new information professionals.

scholarly journals Ochotnicza straż pożarna jednostką ochrony przeciwpożarowej

Prawo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 326 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Henryk Nowicki
Keyword(s):  
Fire Safety ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Safety System ◽  
Fire Departments ◽  
Fund Management ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Volunteer Fire Departments

Volunteer fire department as a  part of fire safetyThis article presents a  legal status of volunteer fire departments and their role in the fire safety system. It pays particular attention to the fact that the activity in the field of fire safety belongs to public task, in this case carried out by social organisations. Taking into account the legal status of the volunteer fire departments acting as associations which often have a  character of public benefit organisations, the author postulates a  clear statutory indication of the legal nature of the volunteer fire departments as associations with legal personality. Therefore it is important to equip the volunteer fire departments with professional legal and fund management which should be provided by the relevant municipalities.

scholarly journals An Equity Focused Study on the Trip Temporal Distributions of Vulnerable Road Users

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Santiago Espinosa Wild
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
White Male ◽  
Logistic Models ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
Transportation Policy ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Household Travel

The United States is a megadiverse nation with a transportation system that, for decades, was designed to serve primarily able-bodied, white, male motorists. This legacy creates a situation in which varying socio-demographic groups experience the transportation system differently with contrasting safety, accessibility, and convenience outcomes. This project introduces descriptive statistics and binary logistic models that provide transportation professionals and policy makers with a quantitative understanding on how, why, and when certain socio-demographic groups are more likely to engage in a trip. This project provides tools to measure and understand the equity implications of a wide array of transportation policy decisions. The binary logistic models presented predict the likelihood of a trip maker engaging on a weekday trip at a given time of day based on their race and ethnicity, gender, income level, preferred mode of transportation, age, and the purpose of their trip. In some instances, the interactions among these parameters were explored too. The models and descriptive statistics are based on the 2017 National Household Travel Survey data which includes over 900,000 datapoints and is weighted to adequately represent every socio-demographic group present in the U.S.

scholarly journals Dynamic causal modelling of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl J. Friston ◽  
Thomas Parr ◽  
Peter Zeidman ◽  
Adeel Razi ◽  
Guillaume Flandin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Model ◽  
Causal Model ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Herd Immunity ◽  
Nonlinear Effects ◽  
Model Inversion ◽  
Neuronal Ensembles ◽  
Technical Report ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Dynamic Causal Model

This technical report describes a dynamic causal model of the spread of coronavirus through a population. The model is based upon ensemble or population dynamics that generate outcomes, like new cases and deaths over time. The purpose of this model is to quantify the uncertainty that attends predictions of relevant outcomes. By assuming suitable conditional dependencies, one can model the effects of interventions (e.g., social distancing) and differences among populations (e.g., herd immunity) to predict what might happen in different circumstances. Technically, this model leverages state-of-the-art variational (Bayesian) model inversion and comparison procedures, originally developed to characterise the responses of neuronal ensembles to perturbations. Here, this modelling is applied to epidemiological populations—to illustrate the kind of inferences that are supported and how the model per se can be optimised given timeseries data. Although the purpose of this paper is to describe a modelling protocol, the results illustrate some interesting perspectives on the current pandemic; for example, the nonlinear effects of herd immunity that speak to a self-organised mitigation process.

Wind, Fire and High-Rises

2010 ◽  
Vol 132 (07) ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Madrzykowski ◽  
Stephen Kerber ◽  
Sunil Kumar ◽  
Prabodh Panindre
Keyword(s):  
Natural Ventilation ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Positive Pressure ◽  
Fire Departments ◽  
Web Based ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Test Parameters ◽  
Engineering Practices

This article focuses on the need for synergy between the practical experience of fire departments and cutting-edge engineering practices that could lead to significant improvements in firefighting and firefighter safety. Experiments on Governors Island have been conducted to examine the effects of natural ventilation and positive pressure ventilation on a fire. The experiments would also allow researchers to study the means of egress from the building, and how conditions were affected by the use of wind control devices and high-rise nozzles. These studies provided real-scale data to guide the development of appropriate tactical operations for use under wind-driven conditions. Given the high cost and limited opportunities for full-scale experiments, modeling has used to address the need of understanding how to implement the tactics in buildings and under conditions outside the test parameters before the fire department would fully implement the new tactics as standard operating procedure. The Polytechnic Institute has developed a web-based, interactive multimedia general methodology, as well as a specific tool called Advanced Learning in Integrated Visual Environments (ALIVE).

Modelling and simulation of a fire department’s response to emergency incidents

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriano O. Solis ◽  
Jenaro Nosedal-Sánchez ◽  
Ali Asgary ◽  
Francesco Longo ◽  
Beatrice Zaccaro
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Model ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Modelling And Simulation ◽  
Fire Departments ◽  
Simulation Experiments ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Event Simulation ◽  
Principal Elements

"After statistical analysis of the database of a fire department covering eight years of consecutive incident records from January 2009 to December 2016, we developed a modelling and simulation (M&S) approach that could be replicated for fire departments across Canada. Our M&S framework involved two different simulation models running on separate platforms: (i) an Incident Generation Engine, which simulates the ‘arrival’ of emergency incidents, and (ii) a Response Simulation Model. The first model is a discrete event simulation model using CPNTools 4.0, generating inputs for the second model, which is an agent-based simulation model developed using AnyLogic. We discuss the principal elements of the two simulation models, and report on findings from our simulation experiments."

Large fires - selection criteria

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Константин Сергеевич Власов ◽  
Михаил Михайлович Данилов ◽  
Алексей Николаевич Денисов
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Fire Service ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Fire Departments ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Large Fires ◽  
The Russian Federation

Исследование организации тушения крупных пожаров в оперативных пожарных подразделениях проводится на постоянной основе в целях повышения уровня боеготовности. Критериями отбора крупных пожаров является количество пострадавших людей и размеры материального ущерба, но в категорию крупных по формальным признакам попадает большое количество пожаров, не представляющих интереса для исследования. Учитывая широкое разнообразие условий деятельности пожарных подразделений Российской Федерации, проблематично определить приемлемый критерий отнесения пожаров к крупным. Research on the organization of large fire extinguishing in operational fire departments is carried out on an ongoing basis in order to improve the level of combat readiness. The criteria for selecting large fires are determined by the number of people affected and the amount of material damage, but a large number of fires that are not of interest to the study fall into the category of large fires based on formal criteria. Taking into account wide variety of operating conditions of fire departments in the Russian Federation, it is problematic to determine an acceptable criterion for classifying fires as large ones. For operational divisions, the allocation of large fires from among others is carried out in order to determine the most difficult cases from the point of view of fire tactics, to identify positive experience for further use. For a long period of firefighting history there have been preserved a large number of fire descriptions, which gradually formed the methodology of scientific research of fires. As far as it was possible to trace the development of methods for studying large fires, the earliest sources were able to find Instructions for the study of fires, developed jointly by employees of the Main Fire Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR and VNIIPO. The analysis of this Instruction and subsequent normative documents allowed us to trace the evolution of fire research methods in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation over a period of 70 years. The study of historical experience allows not to repeat old mistakes. Therefore, one of the foundations for fire service development has always been the study of experience. In order to maximize the use of experience, it is desirable to include in the research circle as many fires as possible, and ideally all fires, which in real conditions is not always possible for many reasons. In this case, it is advisable to use a method similar to the Pareto Principle, when the study of a relatively small number of fires allows to make useful conclusions applicable to the entire population. But in practice, it is still physically impossible to investigate more than 120-150 cases of fires in order to effectively organize the entire process from the collection and processing the materials to study and implementation of relevant innovations in the fire departments of the Russian Federation. The article discusses the main problematic issues and suggests a possible way to solve them.

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