@inproceedings{87e1662dd36840b1a829d347422ca3e5,
title = "Towards a unified public safety scale",
abstract = "There exists an acute need for an unambiguous objectively measurable emergency scale to facilitate communication and mutual understanding of the nature of any emergency, by the public and government agencies. A review of existing emergency scales and their potential indicates no one scale can accurately describe all emergencies. Our research solicits ideas for such a scale using a modified Delphi process followed by a survey. The goal of this research is to gain a better understanding on how the public understands emergency scales and anticipate response for emergency events. The contribution of this research is to identify a set of fundamental dimensions for a measurable emergency scale, derived from the Delphi process outcomes. We also present preliminary findings from the survey developed from the results of the Delphi process.",
keywords = "Community response, Delphi, Emergency response, Emergency scales, Morphological analysis, Public safety scales",
author = "Gomez, {Elizabeth Avery} and Linda Plotnick and Eli Rohn and Morgan, {Jon Kenneth} and Murray Turoff",
year = "2007",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/HICSS.2007.557",
language = "English",
isbn = "0769527558",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2007, HICSS'07",
note = "40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2007, HICSS'07 ; Conference date: 03-01-2007 Through 06-01-2007",
}