The profession of fire fighting has been long recognized as a dangerous, complex and high-risk occupation. It has been only in the past 25 years, however, that any quantitative data have been ...

Let’s face it, the U.S. fire service is the most technologically advanced fire service in the world. We have the latest equipment, established incident command systems, set standards, and for the most ...

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Vol. 20, No. 4 (August 2008), pp. 254-263 (10 pages) Objective. To assess the effect of a Crew Resource Management (CRM) intervention specifically ...

Amtrak has a new Executive Vice President and Chief Safety Officer, and he is a former chief safety officer at both Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines. The Jan. 9 appointment of Ken Hylander ...

In our ongoing attempt to reduce the number of preventable deaths and injuries in our occupation, the fire service has explored the aviation industry’s safety protocols and crew resource management ...

An estimated 15 million Americans suffer from medical errors in hospitals and miscommunication is the most common cause of these errors, according to a Sheridan Healthcare blog post. Some hospitals ...

Air carriers affected by the final rule must establish initial and recurrent CRM training for crewmembers within two years of the effective date of the rule. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...

Five years ago, leadership at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., set their sites on reducing surgical errors and complications by improving communication in the operating room. While the ...

Real-world research has shown, for the first time, that the theory of effective crew resource management makes an ‘invaluable contribution’ to the safety and efficiency of police air support in ...

Just about at the same time, Chief Alan Brunacini (Phoenix Fire Department) was developing the structural fire response equivalent. History would reflect that this program was (of course), the Fire ...