Fire location and burning area are essential parameters for estimating fire emissions. However, ground-based data (such as perimeters from incident reports) often not available with the timeliness required real-time forecasting. detection products derived satellite instruments such GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager or MODIS, on other hand, in near real-time. Using a ground dataset of 2699 fires ...

A severe outbreak of wildfire across the US Pacific Coast during August 2020 led to persistent fire activity through end summer. In late September, Fire Weather Outlooks predicted higher than usual into winter in parts California, with concomitant elevated danger Southeastern US. To help inform regional and national allocation firefighting personnel equipment, we developed visualizations resour...

background: fire and explosion hazards are extremely important in processing units. this study was performed to identify the risk centers, the potential damage caused by fire and explosion, and the days of production cessation in the processing company. materials and methods: the present qualitative case study was conducted using dow’s index in 2015. the fire and explosion hazard index and leve...

safety climate received substantial attention due to its potential for explaining variation in safety-related outcomes. aim of present study was to determine degree of safety climate related to incidents reporting rate and its dimensions among workers’ isfahan steel company. a self-administered anonymous was distributed to 189 workers. the survey included demographic factors, incidents reportin...

the analysis of incidents is one way of increasing safety in workplaces. in this approach, the process of preparing exact and scientific report is a critical step. the aim of this paper was to describe an intervention supporting the improvement of supervisors’ participation to report all occurred incidents. in this study, future workshop method was used with 44 supervisors in tab steel company,...

The goal of this study is to identify opportunities that improve operational performance of information technology incident management at Volvo, Belgium. Findings are derived exclusively from computational analysis of incident and problem event logs (totaling 74,544 events) from May-June 2012, provided as part of the 2013 Business Processing Intelligence Challenge. Improvements that increase re...

Los Angeles County Fire Department has one of the oldest Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) programs in the country. One core component for the LACoFD has been the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). Two important questions for the emergency managers are: 1) Do individuals find a significant difference in symptom reduction for events that were debriefed? 2) Does helpfulness of a...

An LPG filling station incident in Korea has been studied. The direct cause of the incident was concluded to be faulty joining of the couplings of the hoses during the butane unloading process from a tank lorry into an underground storage tank. The faulty connection of a hose to the tank lorry resulted in a massive leak of gas followed by catastrophic explosions. The leaking source was verified...

The United States Marine Corps has some of the most advanced weapons systems and training in the world, yet they make extensive use of “low tech” training tools. Sand table exercises and tactical decision games are used by Marines all over the world, at sea and on land. Although the U.S. Department of Defense has a nearly $18 billion annual training budget, the Marines choose to teach decision ...