TEAMWORK AND EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION AS THE ELEMENTS OF THE SYSTEM FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

In order to reduce the number and consequences of emergency situations, it is necessary to permanently increase the responsibility of the state and capacities for managing of all types of emergency situations through coordinated actions of all responsible entities. Team and team work play a key role in emergency situations, whether they work on prevention, acting during or in eliminating the consequences of emergency situations. In addition to mutual approach and interaction roles, complementarity of knowledge and skills as well as the commitment to a common purpose of action that provides an identity to teamwork, the teamwork must have a shared responsibility of each team member toward the team and vice versa. It can be concluded that team and teamwork contribute to the improvement of the quality of emergency situations management, better communication and coordination with all relevant actors responsible for emergency situations.