About
A/Prof Chris Bearman
Chris Bearman's research involves conducting industry-focused studies in laboratory and field settings with the aim of creating results that have both a strong theoretical underpinning and a robust application to industry. This involves working closely with industry partners and government organizations around the world. Chris also supervises a number of PhD, Masters & Honours students in the Safety Science and Human Factors areas.
Project leadership
Emergencies are increasing in complexity, duration, and the number of agencies involved. This is likely to lead to an increasing number of errors being made, breakdowns in teams and degraded operational situations. These problems will play out within the context of a decreasing tolerance in the community and their political representatives. Rather than distributing the blame to individuals we need to acknowledge that errors and breakdowns in emergency management teams will occur, and that it is important to seek and manage them in a mature and systematic way.
The current project has three main research streams that are examining team monitoring, decision making and organisational learning.
This project was commissioned and funded entirely by Queensland Fire and Emergency Services..
Research team
Type | Project | Research team |
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Commissioned Research | 2014 South Australia post-incident task force | jtrigg, srainbird, cbearman, Lyndsey Wright, jmclennan |
Commissioned Research | 2015 Sampson Flat SA post-incident task force | cbearman, areynolds, lclarkson, rmatthews, lhaigh, ddawson |
27 Aug 2019
In this project we’ve developed a number of tools that can help people to better manage teams, make...
18 Sep 2018
The project is providing practical techniques and strategies to help people function in more...
30 Jun 2017
This project has three main research streams that are:Providing enhanced methods of making...
12 Aug 2016
This project has three main research streams that are:•Providing enhanced methods of making...
18 Aug 2015
The journey towards a mature system for managing safety has previously been imagined as a 'ladder'...
18 Aug 2015
This Project aims to provide enhanced ways of:Making decisions in complex situationsMonitoring...
25 Aug 2014
There is increasing pressure on agencies from larger-scale natural hazards, financial constraints...
25 Aug 2014
Phase models are a common way to frame decision making in emergency management.