Enhanced situational awareness and communication for emergency response

Abstract

It is important to recognize emergency responders? needs during emergency response to workplace incidents in order to propose solutions to facilitate responders? tasks and resolve incidents in a timely manner. To understand emergency response procedures involved in workplace incidents, we interviewed McGill Safety personnel. We identify potential areas of improvement in their procedures, which help us to shape research objectives. We then propose methods to address these objectives. We focus our investigation on a spill scenario and briefly describe our mobile solution to assist in this use context.