Cultivating Resilience in Urban Firefighting: supporting skill acquisition through scenario design

Voshell, Martin; Trent, Stoney; Prue, Brian; Fern, Lisa

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“…Such training could for example rely on scenarios confronting firefighters with the type of difficult situations presented in this paper. The use of carefully designed training scenarios is indeed a fruitful method for reaching higher levels of system resilience and safety (Voshell et al, 2008;Hintze, 2008;Hoffman et al, 2009). For that purpose, the corpus of critical incident reports provides a rich and accurate set of cases that can be simplified, combined, or used as inspiration.…”

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“…Addressing these challenges remains a priority for fire services and organizations across the country despite numerous past and on-going efforts (Granito, 2008). As a means to further investigate elements uncovered by previous research Fern, Trent, and Voshell, 2008;Voshell, Prue, Trent and Fern, 2008), the authors were given the opportunity to analyze a corpus of approximately 30 Critical Incident Reports produced by the fire department's safety services. These reports were created following life-threatening injuries to or fatalities of firefighters during fire operations.…”

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Understanding Coordination Challenges in Urban Firefighting: A Study of Critical Incident Reports

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Fern

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et al. 2009

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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This paper explores the central role played by coordination during fire incident response. Following preliminary investigations based on other methods, the authors analyzed a corpus of 29 critical incident reports produced by one fire department's safety services. Urban firefighting is a complex domain in which members' activities need to be highly synchronized in order to reach common operational and safety goals. As the work environment challenges the capacity of firefighters to coordinate efficiently, coordination breakdowns might occur, creating safety threats as role interdependencies become difficult to manage.

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Section: Addressing Coordination Challenges In Urban Firefightingmentioning

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confidence: 99%