Analysis and lessons identified on critical infrastructures and dependencies from an empirical data set

The disruption of a Critical Infrastructure (CI) or a Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) may have a serious impact on the society. The pervasive web of CI/CII dependencies has the potential to cause exceptional damage and societal disruption and may be hard to secure and govern. To understand the underlying threat causes of CI and CII...

Critical infrastructure assessment by emergency management

Large scale emergencies such as a large scale flooding or a devastating storm can severely impact Critical Infrastructures (CI). Since a subsequent disruption or even destruction of CI may increase the severity of an emergency, it is important for emergency management organizations to include an impact assessment of CI in their risk management,...

An international tabletop exercise on critical infrastructure protection: The lessons identified

In 2007, a TableTop eXercise (TTX) on Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) was held in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was organised by the Civil Protection Committee (CPC) of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC). The aim of the TTX was to identify gaps in existing policies and capabilities for the protection of the civil population and Critical...

Emergente groepen: functioneren en samenwerking met hulpdiensten

Emergente groepen kunnen een belangrijke taak vervullen bij de bestrijding van rampen. Emergente groepen zijn burgers en/of hulpverleners die samenwerken om gezamenlijke doelen te bereiken die relevant zijn voor feitelijke of potentiële rampen, maar waarvan de organisatie (nog) niet is geïnstitutionaliseerd. Doel van het project is om meer...

Situational Awareness for first responders: Evaluation of the BIMS field trial

Recent years have shown an increase in the use of tools that enhance situational awareness. Use of GPS for navigation has become common usage. Furthermore, in many countries vehicle based computer systems are currently being fielded for first responders providing preparative information access. For example in the Netherlands several fire service...

Insufficient Situational Awareness about Critical Infrastructures by Emergency Management.

This paper discusses critical infrastructures (CI) and their dependencies, with as central theme the hypothesis that a lack of CI situational awareness and protection in emergency management operations results in unnecessary amplification of the consequences. This paper discusses the hypothesis and findings along some well-known international...

Formal analysis of empirical traces in incident management

Within the field of incident management split second decisions have to be made, usually on the basis of incomplete and partially incorrect information. As a result of these conditions, errors occur in such decision processes. In order to avoid repetition of such errors, historic cases, disaster plans, and training logs need to be thoroughly...

Critical Infrastructures: A Weak Spot in Disaster and Emergency Response

Ondersteuning van mobiele hulpverleners

TNO onderzoekt hoe mobiele hulpverleners beter ondersteund kunnen worden. Wat is de visie van TNO? Twee praktijkvoorbeelden geven inzicht. In het project "Decision Support Tools" zijn twee typen beslisondersteuningsconcepten ontwikkeld en getest, een Simulatie tool (CFSim) en een Critical Thinking Tool (CTT). Dit artikel beschrijft de...

Combined systems: combining more for crisis management

Critical Infrastructure Awareness Required by Civil Emergency Planning

Modern societies are increasingly dependent on a set of critical products and services which comprise the Critical Infrastructure (CI). This makes Critical infrastructures increasingly important as a planning factor in case of emergencies. For that reason, we studied a number of emergencies and a small set of local emergency plans from the...

Using CrisisKit and MOPED to improve emergency management team training

In order to reduce the effects of a disaster, people in the emergency management organization have to be trained. In recent years training emergency management teams has become a bigger issue. A realistic and effective training of emergency management teams however is a difficult matter. We search for ways to improve this kind of training and to...

Improving learning from emergency management training: Sweden and the Netherlands are teaming up

Het combineren van trainingsmethoden en tools van TNO-TM en het zweedse FOI, zoals Team dimensional training, Dubbel denk, CrisisKit, mobiele ondersteuning voor waarnemenrs, en MIND, biedt nieuwe mogelijkheden voor de training van cridismanagement teams.

Bekendheid noodvoorzieningen in autotunnels 2001

Vanwege maatschappelijke verontrusting over de veiligheid van autotunnels gaf de Bouwdienst van Rijkswaterstaat opdracht na te gaan wat de gemiddelde weggebruiker weet van de in tunnels aanwezige noodvoorzieningen. De opdracht is deel van een groter geheel van proeven met gecontroleerde branden, gesimuleerde evacuaties en hulpdiensten. TNO...

Training teams for emergency management

Emergency management (EM), the decision making involved in directing the relief operation after a disaster or otherwise catastrophic accident is an issue of great public and private concern because of the high stakes involved. Due to the nature of emergencies, and especially mass emergencies, EM teams are faced with decision making in stressful...

Risk analysis and emergency management of ammonia installations

The use of Quantitative Risk Assessment has been increasing for evaluating the risk of handling hazardous materials and land-use planning. This article reports on several studies carried out on the risk of handling, storage and transport of ammonia.