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Human factors (broadly defined as those factors which influence both how the human body operates and how the human mind operates) has been identified as a significant casual factor in wildland fire accidents and near misses. Human factors first gained attention at the 1995 Wildland Fire Human Factors Workshop. A hyperlinked bibliography of all the papers presented at that conference is one of the documents here.
How do you pick up on the
knowledge that human factors
are deteriorating in your
unit in time to do something
about it? Can you improve
your anticipation skills?
Can you build your unit's
resilience in order to
recover quickly when things
do go wrong? Several papers
and presentations here will
help you develop high
reliability organizing (HRO)
skills.
This new webpage on WFSTAR
has been established as a
repository of human factors
related references that can
be utilized for annual
wildland fire safety
refresher training.
