1. Making safer decisions Mary Omodei, Glenn Elliott, Claire Johnson Psychological Science, LaTrobe University, Victoria

2. Background and Fire Behavior Human Behavior

3. High Reliability Organisations: Pre-occupation with failure

4. High Reliability Organisations: Pre-occupation with failure Reluctance to simplify

5. High Reliability Organisations: Pre-occupation with failure Reluctance to simplify Sensitivity to operations

6. High Reliability Organisations: Pre-occupation with failure Reluctance to simplify Sensitivity to operations Commitment to resilience

7. High Reliability Organisations: Pre-occupation with failure Reluctance to simplify Sensitivity to operations Commitment to resilience Deference to expertise

8. Mindand Body: The two-way street

9. Mindand Body: The two-way street

10. Wind direction indicator Contour lines Pre-burnt areas 1000 metres Mindand Body: The two-way street

11. 114 interviews....25 incidents across Vic and NSW......how many words ?

13. 214,681

14. 214,681

15. 214,681 552,899

16. D2.3 project 214,681 552,899

17. D2.3 project 214,681 552,899 933,054

18. A Human Factors Fire Triangle Thinking

19. A Human Factors Fire Triangle Thinking Relating

20. A Human Factors Fire Triangle Thinking Relating Co-ordinating

21. ?

22. Dr. Robert McNamara, (former U.S. Secretary of Defence)

23. The Fogs of War:

24. The Fogs of War:

25. The Fogs of War: Firefighting

26. The Fogs of War: 7 Human Factors lessons from the fireground Firefighting

27. Lesson 1: “We are essentially baboons who wear clothes and speak in sentences” Thinking J- Dr Jim McLennan

28. Lesson 2: We are good at managing the fire, but not good at managing ourselves

30. Some Good News !

31. Underlying processes

32. Underlying processes

33. Lesson 3: We tend to underestimate what the fire will do, while overestimating what we can do about it

34. Networked Fire Chief Experiment Wind direction indicator Contour lines Pre-burnt areas 1000 metres

35. Six scenarios

36. Lesson 4: We can be reluctant to change plans even when the situation demands such a change

37. Lesson 5: The importance of personal knowledge

38. Local Knowledge

39. Trust

40. Lesson 6: The importance of thinking ahead (including the use of worst-case scenarios)

41. Lesson 7: We use previous experiences to guide current thinking

42. Where to ? Training/Ops

43. Where to ? Training/Ops Investigations

44. Where to ? Training/Ops Investigations Lessons Learned

45. http://www.iawfonline.org/phoenix/ http://www.wildfirelessons.net/Home.aspx http://www.airsafe.com

46. Get Serious about HRO – Mike DeGrosky http://wildfiremag.com/wui/serious_hro_0708/ Human Factors in Aviation: A natural history – Sidney Dekker http://www.lu.se/upload/Trafikflyghogskolan/TR2003-02_HumanFactorsinAviationaNaturalHistory.pdf

47. Mary Omodei: m.omodei@latrobe.edu.au Glenn Elliott: g.elliott@latrobe.edu.au Claire Johnson: ce2johnson@students.latrobe.edu.au The End