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Evaluation of Coordination of Emergency Response Team through the Social Network Analysis. Case Study: Oil and Gas Refinery
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to examine the cohesions status of the coordination within response teams in the emergency response team (ERT) in a refinery. METHODS: For this study, cohesion indicators of social network analysis (SNA; density, degree centrality, reciprocity, and transitiv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372033/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25830067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2014.09.004 |
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author | Mohammadfam, Iraj Bastani, Susan Esaghi, Mahbobeh Golmohamadi, Rostam Saee, Ali |
author_facet | Mohammadfam, Iraj Bastani, Susan Esaghi, Mahbobeh Golmohamadi, Rostam Saee, Ali |
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description | BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to examine the cohesions status of the coordination within response teams in the emergency response team (ERT) in a refinery. METHODS: For this study, cohesion indicators of social network analysis (SNA; density, degree centrality, reciprocity, and transitivity) were utilized to examine the coordination of the response teams as a whole network. The ERT of this research, which was a case study, included seven teams consisting of 152 members. The required data were collected through structured interviews and were analyzed using the UCINET 6.0 Social Network Analysis Program. RESULTS: The results reported a relatively low number of triple connections, poor coordination with key members, and a high level of mutual relations in the network with low density, all implying that there were low cohesions of coordination in the ERT. CONCLUSION: The results showed that SNA provided a quantitative and logical approach for the examination of the coordination status among response teams and it also provided a main opportunity for managers and planners to have a clear understanding of the presented status. The research concluded that fundamental efforts were needed to improve the presented situations. |
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spelling | pubmed-43720332015-03-31 Evaluation of Coordination of Emergency Response Team through the Social Network Analysis. Case Study: Oil and Gas Refinery Mohammadfam, Iraj Bastani, Susan Esaghi, Mahbobeh Golmohamadi, Rostam Saee, Ali Saf Health Work Original Article BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to examine the cohesions status of the coordination within response teams in the emergency response team (ERT) in a refinery. METHODS: For this study, cohesion indicators of social network analysis (SNA; density, degree centrality, reciprocity, and transitivity) were utilized to examine the coordination of the response teams as a whole network. The ERT of this research, which was a case study, included seven teams consisting of 152 members. The required data were collected through structured interviews and were analyzed using the UCINET 6.0 Social Network Analysis Program. RESULTS: The results reported a relatively low number of triple connections, poor coordination with key members, and a high level of mutual relations in the network with low density, all implying that there were low cohesions of coordination in the ERT. CONCLUSION: The results showed that SNA provided a quantitative and logical approach for the examination of the coordination status among response teams and it also provided a main opportunity for managers and planners to have a clear understanding of the presented status. The research concluded that fundamental efforts were needed to improve the presented situations. 2014-10-14 2015-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4372033/ /pubmed/25830067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2014.09.004 Text en © 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Original Article Mohammadfam, Iraj Bastani, Susan Esaghi, Mahbobeh Golmohamadi, Rostam Saee, Ali Evaluation of Coordination of Emergency Response Team through the Social Network Analysis. Case Study: Oil and Gas Refinery |
title | Evaluation of Coordination of Emergency Response Team through the Social Network Analysis. Case Study: Oil and Gas Refinery |
title_full | Evaluation of Coordination of Emergency Response Team through the Social Network Analysis. Case Study: Oil and Gas Refinery |
title_fullStr | Evaluation of Coordination of Emergency Response Team through the Social Network Analysis. Case Study: Oil and Gas Refinery |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluation of Coordination of Emergency Response Team through the Social Network Analysis. Case Study: Oil and Gas Refinery |
title_short | Evaluation of Coordination of Emergency Response Team through the Social Network Analysis. Case Study: Oil and Gas Refinery |
title_sort | evaluation of coordination of emergency response team through the social network analysis. case study: oil and gas refinery |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372033/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25830067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2014.09.004 |
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