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Volume 14, Issue 3 (Autumn-In Press 2024)
Disaster Prev. Manag. Know. 2024, 14(3): 2-2 |
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Saghehei E, Erfani V, Etesam M R. Assessing and treating the risks of distributing relief items in natural disasters. Disaster Prev. Manag. Know. 2024; 14 (3) :2-2
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Distribution of relief items is one of the special and important functions of the response phase to disasters. The occurrence of significant deviations in distribution operations can increase the financial and life costs of the crisis management system. Incorrect estimation of the demand, failure to correctly identify the affected people, the occurrence of security problems during the distribution of items, non-optimal allocation of items to the affected people are among the deviations that we have witnessed many times in past crises. Incorrect estimation of the demand, failure to correctly identify the affected people, the occurrence of security problems during the distribution of items, non-optimal allocation of items to the affected people are among the deviations that we have witnessed many times in the past. This article aims to identify and assess the risks of the distribution of relief items in the Red Crescent population of the country. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is used as the main research framework to identify and assess the risks of the distribution process. In this paper, the distribution operation is divided into three main processes of crisis assessment, analysis and decision-making and relief distribution, and the activities related to each process are specified. The total number of identified risks of all three processes included 104 potential errors. The total number of identified risks of three processes included 104 failure modes. After the implementation of the risk assessment phase, 20% of the identified risks were considered unacceptable. The consequences of about 80% of the risks were time delay, disruption in the distribution process and rework of activities. Considering the high level of identification risk scores, it can be concluded that the current control mechanisms are not effective and need serious review and improvement in the country's Red Crescent population. The largest share of the proposed solutions is related to the use of information systems in distribution operations with 25 solutions, which highlights the importance of mechanizing processes related to distribution operations and using new technology. The proposed framework of this article can be used to identify and assess the risks of the response phase functions in other crisis management organizations.
Keywords: Risk assessment, Disaster relief distribution, Humanitarian supply chain, Failure mode and effects analysis
Type of Study: Applicable |
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Received: 2024/03/21 | Accepted: 2024/06/9 | ePublished: 2024/09/18
Received: 2024/03/21 | Accepted: 2024/06/9 | ePublished: 2024/09/18
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