Turn back the clock to 1988 and let's review one of our darkest firefighter tragedies that reinforces the need for effective communications under stress. A building that houses an automobile ...

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 ...

FlightSafety International has developed a crew resource management training course designed specifically for helicopter operations. The scenario-based training program covers human factors, teamwork, ...

Knowing when to speak up is a perplexing problem for the less experienced members of our crews. But over time and through exposure, rookies learn what to look for–and the rest of the team learns to ...

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 ...