New HRO Information Case Study: Incident Management Teams as Vehicles of HRO Implementation  (779KB pdf posted 11/4/2008) High Reliability Organizing (HRO) related training was conducted at the Southwest Incident Management Team's 2008 Annual Meeting. During the year several IMTs continued to work with members of the instructor cadre. This document begins to illuminate the important role that IMTs can play in increasing the awareness of HRO principles already at some levels in wildland fire management that we can build upon.    HRO for Wildland Firefighters An Introductory Video (19MB wmv video file posted 9/11/08)  Introductory video - Creating a better mindset for wildland firefighter safety and survival.   Morning Briefings Reinforce Deference to Expertise - An HRO Story (322KB pdf posted 9/14/2008) An HRO Story - "Managers who work in high risk environments, such as wildland fire, are often tasked with “briefing” crew leaders about the potential hazards they and their crews face and instruct them on what actions to take when those hazards become realities." High Reliability Organizing Implementation at Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks - An HRO Case Study (833 Kb PDF posted 8/11/2008) SEKI created an institutional structure enabling bottom-up empowerment, effectively institutionalizing self-empowerment in their safety program.   Park personnel began their efforts by consciously actualizing one HRO principle; preoccupation with failure.