Designing the staff ride - a vehicle for learning from wildfire and prescribed burning operations in Australia.
A guide to building organisational capacity for high reliability.
A Staff Ride is an experiential learning activity that enables systemic, cultural or psychological issues to become visible.
Bushfire CRC researchers and personnel for Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service have collaborated to apply the research expertise to a practical learning activity – a Staff Ride. Running two to three days of professional learning where one day is the staff ride followed by workshops on failure points is a highly effective way of developing an understanding of the issues and developing strategies and commitment to change.
This manual and accompanying video (both below) are designed so that any local agency can develop the skills to run a staff ride. Initially an agency might outsource expertise from Bushfire CRC on failure points but the aim is for them to develop their own skills in this area. These resources are intended to assist with that process.
