This is live facilitated training presented through Zoom.

Course Duration: 2 hours.

Includes live chat and live Q&A.

Includes a 7-day recorded playback for anyone who could not attend live.

Course Description

This program looks at a summary of common mistakes and best practices discovered from the presenter’s extensive evaluation of more than 500 near-miss reports and line-of-duty casualty investigations. Improve your understanding of what’s killing firefighters at incident scenes and how to improve fireground safety

During this fast-paced program we will look at the role of staffing, communications, command activities, size-up, strategy, training, near-miss events and post incident evaluations play in line-of-duty deaths of firefighters and participants will be offered best practices to fix the mistakes.

About the presenter

Richard B. Gasaway, PhD, CSP is widely considered a trusted authority on human factors, situational awareness and the high-risk decision making processes used in high-stress, high consequence work environments. He served 33 years on the front lines as a firefighter, EMT-Paramedic, company officer, training officer, fire chief and emergency incident commander. His doctoral research included the study of cognitive neuroscience to understand how human factors flaw situational awareness and impact high-risk decision making.