1998 inFIRE Annual Conference
Organized by Metropolitan Fire & Emergency Services Training Complex, Australia
Melbourne, Australia | May 4-8
About the Conference
The 1998 inFIRE Conference was held in Melbourne in May. Fire information professionals and fire fighters from Europe, North America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia attended the five-day event at the Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Training Complex in Melbourne, Australia.
The theme "Fire Information for the 21st Century" was addressed from a variety of angles -- the communication of risk, the information needs for public awareness campaigns and research, the tactical uses of information in fire services, the need for a well informed fire fighter, and the fire information specialists.
Three days were devoted to the more specific interest of information professionals in Emergency services : information literacy training for front line personnel, knowledge management, information modelling, Intranet and information brokering initiatives, and the opportunities opening up for librarians in emergency services to expand traditional services and move into new areas.
A common theme was that information and knowledge are not the inevitable outcomes of the increasing availability of information technology and access to the Internet. Information and knowledge grow from the application of subject expertise and information management skills, knowing what data to collect and how to interpret it, and fostering an information literate user base.
Conference Program
Program Schedule | Participants
Presentations
- Initiatives for Emergency Services Organisations - a National Perspective
Roger Jones, TEM Consultants, Mount Macedon, Victoria - Information Needs for Risk Management Decision Making
Dr Paul Barnes, Queensland Fire & Rescue Authority - People's response during structural fires: an overview of research
Patricia Brennan, Centre for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering, Melbourne - Need for Risk Management by Governments: a Challenge for the 21st Century
Tom Wilmot and Tony Paish, World Fire Statistics Centre, England - Fire Fatalities In Australia
Judy Newton, Department of Emergency Services, Queensland - Real Time Information in a Decentralised Fire Service
Stephen Walls, Country Fire Authority, Victoria - European Legislation and European Standards
Jeanine Driessens, ANPI -NVBB, Belgium - Assessing the Impact of Fire Risk Communication
Bernd Rohrmann, University of Melbourne - Partners in Protecting the Community
Wayne Bradborn, Metropolitan and Emergency Services Board, Melbourne - Fire Behaviour Prediction. Information in Anticipation, through Coupled Meso-Meteorological
Models
David Packham, Monash University - Realistic Hot Fire Training to Deal Safely with Flashover and Backdraft
Shan Raffel, Queensland Fire & Rescue Authority - Vehicle Mounted Data Systems
Ian Taylor, Hereford and Worcester Fire Brigade, England - Community Fireguard: Creating Partnerships with the Community to Minimise the Impact of Wildfire
Jon Boura, Country Fire Authority, Victoria - High Rise Fire Pattaya Thailand Investigation
Garry Martin, Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Services Board, Melbourne - Focusing on the Front Line
Anne Pickles, NSW Fire Brigades - Knowledge Management: What is it and what do we do about it?
Janet B. Green, Factory Mutual Research Corp., USA - The Australian Institute of Police Management and Information Literacy Programs for Professionalism
Margaret Davson, Australian Institute of Police Management, Sydney - A customer-defined library service for emergency services personnel
Jill Don, Department of Emergency Services, Queensland - Preservation and Restoration of Library Collections from Fire
Nora H. Jason, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA - New Parents: the Intranet at the Fire & Rescue Service of Western Australia
Elizabeth Hides, Fire & Rescue Service of Western Australia - CSIRO Infobuild: Information Brokering in the Construction Industry
Gaye McDermott, CSIRO Building Information Resource Centre - Beyond the Walls to Where
Rob Fleming, Australian Emergency Management Institute - Risk Management in CFA and the Response of the Information Service
Heather Wood, Country Fire Authority, Victoria
Copies of the proceedings (22 papers) can be obtained from :
Susan F. Walker
Fire Protection Publications Library
Oklahoma State University
930 N. Willis
Stillwater, OK 74078
USA
Phone: 405-744-7046
Fax: 405-744-8204
Email:royals@osufpp.org
Proceedings
Meeting Minutes
inFIRE Committee Meeting, November 8-9 1998, Norwood MA
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