Risk and Security Management

Projects

• We worked with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to establish what is now the globally recognised way to prevent drowning – turn on your back, float and relax. This research has informed internationally adopted life-saving techniques, treatments and technologies > Read more
• In March 2016, we were involved in Exercise Unified Response (EUR), a week-long, EU-funded simulation exercise led by the London Fire Brigade. We designed simulations, acted as independent observers and evaluators, and contributed to the final report. The outcomes of this exercise may influence how emergency services respond to major emergencies across the EU > Read more
• We worked with Hampshire Fire and Rescue to develop a course that helps personnel make better decisions in scenarios that are difficult to replicate in a simulation environment > Read more

• Operationalizing Learning from Rare Events

  Framework for Middle Humanitarian Operations Managers (2019), Labib, A. Hadleigh-Dunn, S, Mahfouz, A and Gentile, M., Production and Operations Management

• Learning from rare events

  an analysis of ValuJet Flight 592 and Swissair Flight SR 111 crashes (2018). Grigoriou, K., Labib, A. and Hadleigh-Dunn, S. (2018). Engineering Failure Analysis.

• Disaster prevention through a harmonized framework for high reliability organisations (2019)

  Agwu, A. E., Labib, A. and Hadleigh-Dunn, S. Safety Science, 111, 298–312.

• Disaster prevention through a harmonized framework for high reliability organisations

  Safety Science, Volume 111, 2019, Pages 298–312, Agwu Emele Agwu, Ashraf Labib, and Sara Hadleigh-Dunn

• Learning and unlearning from disasters: an analysis of the Virginia Tech shooting and the Lion Air 610 Airline crash

  Journal of Surveillance, Security and Safety, Volume 1, 2020, Bianca Shmidt, Ashraf Labib, and Sara Hadleigh-Dunn

• Operationalising learning from rare events: framework for middle humanitarian operations managers

  Production and Operations Management, Volume 28, Issue 9, 2021, Pages 2323–2337, Ashraf Labib, Sara Hadleigh-Dunn, A. Mahfouz, and M. Gentile

• The application of unmanned aerial vehicles in managing port and border security in the US and Kuwait: Reflections on best practice for the UK

  International Journal of Maritime Crime and Security, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2020, Suwaid Al Abkal, Risto Henrik Aleksander Talas, Sarah Shaw, and Tom Ellis

• Violence, abuse and the implications for mental health and wellbeing of security operatives in the United Kingdom: the invisible problem

  Policing and Society, Volume 31, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 321–336, Risto Henrik Aleksander Talas, Mark Button, Mark Doyle, and Jaideep Das