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Drop your tools: an allegory for organizational studies
One of the critical mistakes made by wildland firefighters during both the Mann Gulch and South Canyon fires was their unwillingness to drop heavy tools and packs as they attempted to outrun the flames. Weick points to 10 possible reasons for their…
Author(s): Karl E. Weick
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The Challenger launch decision: risky technology, culture, and deviance at NASA
In the wake of the explosion of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger, a conventional explanation for the tragedy emerged: the economic strain on NASA caused managers to withhold information about safety violations in order to maintain the launch…
Author(s): Diane Vaughan
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Reframing and organizational action
Palmer and Dunford analyze the concept of reframing and discuss four key limits to this concept. Reframing literature asserts that people generally are trapped into a singular way of thinking about a situation, and thus, they are unable to think…
Author(s): Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford
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Learning from mistakes is easier said than done: group and organizational influences on the detection and correction of human error
Researchers have often studied and discussed errors and accidents within an organizational setting in two ways. The first focuses on the individual, while the second looks at the system in which the individual operates. Edmondson argues for a third…
Author(s): Amy Edmondson
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Wildland firefighter safety awareness study: Phase 2 - setting new goals for the organizational culture, leadership, human factors, and other areas impacting firefighter safety
This report summarizes the results of Phase II of a four phase study to examine the Federal wildland firefighting community and to improve firefighter safety. The first phase described the strengths and problem areas of the current organizational…
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Attitude of wisdom: the experience component in wildland firefighter decisions
Atwood notes that while managers must adopt a passion for safety, the true test is on the fire line. Supervisors are in charge of making decisions that ultimately put safety first, or not.  Atwood argues that improvement will not come from the top…
Author(s): George Atwood
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Wildland firefighter safety awareness study: Phase 1 - identifying the organizational culture, leadership, human factors, and other issues impacting firefighter safety
There are many characterizations of wildland firefighters and their work culture. These characterizations vary across all levels of organizations, jurisdictions and types of jobs. As closely held as these perceptions are, as confident as each of us…
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Fast, inexpensive fireline construction
Anyone who has ever tried building fireline on rocky land knows there has been a need for an inexpensive, efficient piece of equipment to do this job. We've recently invented a simple fireline plow to build fireline in such terrain. Fireline…
Author(s): Nathan P. Arno, Stephen F. Arno
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