Coal Mine Fire Emergency Rescue Capability Assessment and Emergency Disposal Research
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The article uses hierarchical analysis and gray evaluation method to establish an evaluation model, combines specific engineering examples to assess the risk of its fire emergency rescue system, derives evaluation results and proposes corresponding preventive measures in a targeted manner, which can improve the mine's fire emergency rescue capability and reduce the losses caused by fire. It is suitable for publication, but there are still the following problems that need to be corrected.
（1）What is the theoretical basis for establishing an assessment model in the risk assessment of a specific engineering example fire emergency response indicator system?
（2）Why can the project be evaluated using the grey system evaluation method and what are its advantages?
（3）In the article, what are the indicators that can act as the emergency rescue capacity of coal mine fire?
（4）In part 3.4.1, there is a problem with the expression tense of “material security and information security is judged and the corresponding weight empirical values are obtained by two-by-two comparison according to the risk hierarchy analysis chart.” in the second paragraph, check it carefully and correct it.
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 1 Comments
Point 1: What is the theoretical basis for establishing an assessment model in the risk assessment of a specific engineering example fire emergency response indicator system?
Response 1: In the risk assessment of the fire emergency indicator system of a specific engineering example, the theoretical basis for establishing the assessment model is the gray system theory and the gray evaluation method.
Point 2: Why can the project be evaluated using the grey system evaluation method and what are its advantages?
Response 2: The gray system evaluation method is a scientific prediction and evaluation analysis of an uncertain information system by studying the laws contained in the system. The method requires less basic data and its conclusions are more meaningful because the gray system evaluation method can not only make an objective evaluation of the project as a whole, but also make an accurate assessment of the subdivision of secondary and tertiary indicators of the project, which is more feasible in the practical operation.
Point 3: In the article, what are the indicators that can act as the emergency rescue capacity of coal mine fire?
Response 3: The primary indicators in the article for evaluating the emergency response capacity of coal mine fires are rescue organization and security, personnel security, information security and material security, and there are also nineteen secondary indicators such as emergency response agencies, decision making and command.
Point 4: In part 3.4.1, there is a problem with the expression tense of “material security and information security is judged and the corresponding weight empirical values are obtained by two-by-two comparison according to the risk hierarchy analysis chart.” in the second paragraph, check it carefully and correct it.
Response 4: The sentence in question has been revised and marked in red, please see lines 268 to 270 of the attachment.
Reviewer 2 Report
In order to improve the emergency rescue ability of coal mine fire and reduce the loss caused by coal mine fire. Based on the grey system theory and grey evaluation method, this paper takes the fire emergency rescue system of Lugou mine as an example to establish the evaluation model and evaluate the risk of the fire emergency rescue index system of the mine. After review, it is suggested that the paper be published after minor revision.
1. What is the difference between the grey system evaluation method and other evaluation methods? What is its scope of application?
2. What are the results of the assessment of this coal mine by applying the grey comprehensive evaluation model? What should be done to improve the measures?
3. How was the hierarchical analysis used to determine the weighting results in the process of determining the weights of the assessment metrics?
4. There is a tense problem in the first sentence “By using the gray comprehensive evaluation model to assess the risk of the emergency rescue capability of the Lugou mine fire, the results show that the overall risk level is high.” of the last paragraph of part 3.6, please check it carefully and correct it.
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 2 Comments
Point 1: What is the difference between the grey system evaluation method and other evaluation methods? What is its scope of application?
Response 1: The gray system evaluation method is a scientific prediction and evaluation analysis of an uncertain information system by studying the laws contained in the system, which requires less basic data and has a more meaningful conclusion compared to the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, because the gray system evaluation method is able to make an objective evaluation not only of the project as a whole, but also of the project's subdivision of secondary The main research objective of this theory is to provide an accurate assessment of the project's
The main target of this theory is the case where there is little basic data and some information is not clear. The theory believes that information systems are not only composed of two parts: a white system with completely transparent information and a black system with completely opaque information, but also a gray system with partially clear and partially unclear information. Since some of the information is known, gray theory can be explored to understand the operation of the whole system by exploring the known information, plus it has no special requirements for system data distribution and changes, so it has a very wide range of application.
Point 2: What are the results of the assessment of this coal mine by applying the grey comprehensive evaluation model? What should be done to improve the measures?
Response 2: By using the gray comprehensive evaluation model to assess the risk of this coal mine fire emergency rescue capability, the results show that the overall risk level is high, and the weight value of the risk assessment indicators shows that among the first level assessment indicators, the risk weight value of information security and personnel security is larger, followed by material security and rescue organization security.
Preventive countermeasures are recommended to optimize the construction of rescue organizations, optimize material security, optimize personnel security and optimize information security.
Point 3: How was the hierarchical analysis used to determine the weighting results in the process of determining the weights of the assessment metrics?
Response 3: Firstly, the coal mine fire emergency rescue system construction factors were identified through hierarchical analysis, and the influencing factors were divided into three levels, which belong to the three-level gray comprehensive evaluation. Then, according to the results of the questionnaire of the expert group, the discriminant matrix of the experts on the importance of the risk of the assessment index was constructed by two-by-two comparison, and then the weight value of the expert group on the risk index of the assessment was derived by applying the hierarchical analysis method according to the expert discriminant matrix, and then the results obtained above were corrected by applying the gray correlation degree, and the weight results of each assessment index were obtained.
要点4：第3.6部分最后一段第一句“采用灰色综合评价模型评估卢沟矿火应急救援能力风险，结果显示整体风险等级较高”存在紧张问题，请仔细核对并更正。
回应 4：有问题的句子已更正，并在文章中从第 390 行到 392 行用红色标记，请参阅附件。
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Reviewer 3 Report
Very interesting paper. However, the quality of english language should be improved, and the authors should look at literature outside China. Otherwise, once revised this paper could be published.
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Response to Reviewer 3 Comments
Point 1: I am not an expert on fire emergency rescue, but I do know that there are solid articles and books on the subject from North America, among others; therefore, it is somewhat surprising that the entire bibliography contains only Chinese documents; the authors should broaden their search scope.
Response 1: Yes, it was poor consideration on my part. I should have considered the broader picture. After a careful search of the literature, several papers that are closely related to the research content of this paper have been added and have been marked in red from line 75 to line 91, please see the attachment.
Point 2: Although the English language is generally quite acceptable, a thorough re-read would be useful; for example, right from the beginning there are 2 incomplete sentences in the Abstract; a particularly complex and intricate sentence runs from line 48 to line 53; subsection 4 of section 3.2 (lines 237-238) is unbalanced, and so on.
Response 2: Thank you very much for your careful checking, I have corrected the problematic sentences and marked them in red in lines 9 to 11 and 49 to 52, please see the attachment.
Point 3: The math involved in this paper is quite detailed, and I'm a little uncomfortable passing judgment on this aspect of the paper; However, I didn't find any obvious mistakes
Response 3: I'm really sorry that you feel that way, maybe I used a little too much math in this article, I'll be more concise next time, thanks again!
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