The profession of fire fighting has been long recognized as a dangerous, complex and high-risk occupation. It has been only in the past 25 years, however, that any quantitative data have been ...

An estimated 15 million Americans suffer from medical errors in hospitals and miscommunication is the most common cause of these errors, according to a Sheridan Healthcare blog post. Some hospitals ...

Five years ago, leadership at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Fla., set their sites on reducing surgical errors and complications by improving communication in the operating room. While the ...

The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) is the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world. The Journal's mission is to promote excellence in professional nursing, with a global ...

Real-world research has shown, for the first time, that the theory of effective crew resource management makes an ‘invaluable contribution’ to the safety and efficiency of police air support in ...

Air carriers affected by the final rule must establish initial and recurrent CRM training for crewmembers within two years of the effective date of the rule. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...

I thought there was a tacit contract among all professional aircrews that can be summed up briefly as, “I agree not to kill you.” Expanded, this contract reads: “I agree that during the approach and ...

In the aftermath of the Jan. 29 air disaster over the Potomac River, the rescue and recovery efforts were stunningly fast — but not as fast as the speculation and rumormongering that flared even as ...

The crash of Asiana flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport has put aviation safety back in the spotlight. It’s far too early to tell definitively what happened in the crash. What we do know ...

Just about at the same time, Chief Alan Brunacini (Phoenix Fire Department) was developing the structural fire response equivalent. History would reflect that this program was (of course), the Fire ...