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Documents & Reports

document D2.3 Safety Scenarios
Safety scenarios [pdf 3.7 Mb]

document Human Factors Interview Protocol
Human Factors Interview Protocol [pdf 408.0 kb]

document Identifying the Causes of Unsafe Firefighting Decisions: A Human Factors Interview Protocol
Identifying the Causes of Unsafe Firefighting Decisions: A Human Factors Interview Protocol [pdf 408.0 kb]

document Making decisions on the fireground
Update 4 - Research is looking into the human factors that effect decision making on the fireground. [pdf 96.0 kb]

document New online resource for protecting firefighters
Update 35: The Protecting Firefighters Information Package is an online tool bringing together some of the best Bushfire CRC research to assist with basic information sharing. [pdf 230.3 kb]

document Project D2.3 - Enhancing Safety
Safety Scenarios [pdf 49.2 kb]

document The Human Factor in Firefighting
Update 27 - Results from firefighter interviews. [pdf 133.5 kb]

Presentations & Posters

document Program D - Peter Hayes.pdf
IMTs - Cobbled together or perfectly planned? Initial observations from a study investigating familiarity [pdf 601.6 kb]

document Program D - Glenn Elliot.pdf
Safe behaviour and decision making. Evolution 101: Taking the 'Evolutionary Monkey' off our backs [pdf 107.6 kb]

document Program D - Claire Johnston.pdf
How expert bushfire incident managers anticipate worst case scenarios: Seeing the future earlier [pdf 162.0 kb]

document Peter Hayes
Ad hoc or pre-formed?: the influence of member familiarity on IMT decision making [pdf 92.3 kb]

document Claire Johnson
Worst case scenarios: How post-incident interviews have advanced current understanding [pdf 78.1 kb]

document Glenn Elliott
On dangerous ground: Human factors and fire ground safety [pdf 167.1 kb]

document Claire Johnson, Geoff Cumming & Mary Omodei
The Use of Worst Case Scenarios in Decision Making By Bushfire Fighters [pdf 190.5 kb]

document Glenn Elliott, Mary Omedei, Walshe, Kerz, McLeay, Fellows, Knill, Valentine
Using the networked fire chief wildfire scenario generator to investigate decision making. [pdf 70.9 kb]

document Claire Johnson (BCRC PhD Student), Geoff Cumming and Mary Omodei
Worst case scenarios in decision making. [pdf 68.4 kb]

document Why Do Firefighters Sometimes Make Unsafe Decisions? BCRC / AFAC 2005 Poster
This poster (a) introduces the “Human Factors Interview Protocol”, HFIP, a post-incident interview protocol specifically designed to identify the underlying (human factors) causes of potentially unsafe decisions and (b) presents some preliminary findings obtained in pilot testing the HFIP with 34 firefighters, ranging from Crew Leaders to Incident Controllers. [pdf 66.4 kb]

Journal Papers - External Links

Decision making effectiveness in wildfire incident management teams
McLennan, J.P., Holgate, A. M., Omodei, M. M., & Wearing, A. J.

Conference Papers - External Links

Identifying why even well-trained firefighters make unsafe decisions: A Human Factors Interview Protocol.
Omodei, M M., McLennan, J., & Reynolds, C.

Networked Fire Chief: A research and training tool that targets the human factors causes of unsafe decision making in wildfires
Omodei, M. M., Elliott, G. C., Walshe, M., & Wearing, A. J.

Article

Read an article by Dr Jim McLennan, "Underestimating speed and overestimating distance of a wildfire," first published in the Winter 2009 issue of Fire Australia magazine, now published online as one of many Bushfire CRC New Features.