Citation

Foussard C, Wassenhove WV, Remis CD. Int. J. Emerg. Manage. 2023; 18(1): 47-67.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, Inderscience Publishers)

DOI

10.1504/IJEM.2023.129405

PMID

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Abstract

During a large-scale exercise designed to test the effectiveness of a Seveso type emergency plan of an industrial site, a specific observation method of the simulation was implemented. It is articulated around the combination of specialised observers (post graduate students in Industrial Risk Management) that focus on key people, essential tasks and paramount locations that drive the dynamics of the emergency response. Associated with an interpretation model called structure-relation-meaning, this method allows to produce three levels of organisational learning (single loop, double loop and triple loop). Resulting knowledges benefit the company, the administration, the students and the faculties. This paper presents the experimental setup, the analysis methodology, then the results obtained are discussed. The paper's goal is to give useful information to safety professionals in companies who can integrate partly or entirely the observation method for emergency response simulation. It is also useful for faculties that teach on emergency response simulation.

Keywords: organisational learning; loop learning; emergency response; resilience engineering; sensemaking; professionalisation in safety.

Language: en