Findings From the Wildland Firefighters Human Factors Workshop

Contents

• Background
  
  
• Workshop Overview
  • The Start
  • High Reliability Organizations: A Vision for Fire Reorganization
  • Using the Crew Resource Management Model in Fire
  • Assessment and Feedback
    
    
• Workshop Findings
  • Fire Organization and Culture
  • Fire Management, Incident Management Teams, and Fire Crews in a Crew Resource Management Context
  • Assessment and Feedback
    
    
• Discussion
  
  
• Recommendations
  
  
• A Final Note
  
  
• References
  
  
• Appendix A—Overview
  
  
• Appendix B—Agenda
  
  
• Appendix C—Participants
  
  
• Appendix D—Keynote Presentations
  • Addressing the Common Behavioral Element in Accidents and Incidents
  • Naturalistic Decision Making and Wildland Firefighting
  • Cultural Attitudes and Change in High-Stress, High-Speed Teams
  • South Canyon Revisited: Lessons from High Reliability Organizations
    
    
• Appendix E—Related Reports
  • The Collapse of Decisionmaking and Organizational Structure on Storm King Mountain
  • The Collapse of Decisionmaking and Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster

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