Emergencia: Pro-active decision support for emergency coordination through actionable emergency plans

Abstract

In this paper we present Emergencia, a software tool prototype to support the coordinator of an emergency (e.g. at a large industrial site) in the process of taking the appropriate decisions to solve the emergency situation with minimal impact on safety and devastation. Such a coordinator usually performs this task with the help of an emergency plan, a printed document describing relevant procedures to follow during an emergency. Emergency plans of large sites can easily contain hundreds of pages and might be difficult to use when decisions need to be taken quickly. Instead of browsing such a document in search for the relevant procedures, Emergencia guides the coordinator through this document and pro-actively suggests appropriate procedures to follow and pertinent decisions and measures to take, by considering the current status of the emergency situation.