Incident command : tales from the hot seat / edited by Rhona Flin, Kevin Arbuthnot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flin, Rhona.

Arbuthnot, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management--Psychological aspects.

Emergency management.

Incident command systems.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

vii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

Part I The Nature of Command

2. Key Issues in Incident Command / Kevin Arbuthnot 10

3. Managing the Spike: The Command Perspective in Critical Incidents / Peter C. Sarna 32

4. Incident Command Functions / Alan Brunacini 58

Part II Case Studies of Command

5. Police Commander

The Notting Hill Riot / Tony Moore 69

6. Fire Commander / Dennis Davis 88

7. Military Commander

Royal Navy / Jeremy Larken 105

8. Military Commander

Royal Marines / Andrew Keeling 138

9. Airline Captain

The View from the Flightdeck / Mike Lodge 161

10. Prison Governor / Andrew Coyle 176

Part III Developing Commanders and their Teams

11. Command Decision Making / Margaret Crichton, Rhona Flin 201

12. Command and Control Teams: Principles for Training and Assessment / Eduardo Salas, Janis A. Cannon-Bowers, Jeanne Weaver 239

13. Training Decision-Making by Team Based Simulation / Jonathan Crego, Claire Harris 258

14. Lessons from the Hot Seat / Rhona Flin, Kevin Arbuthnot 270.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

0754613410

OCLC:

48571315