Managing the Unexpected in Prescribed Fire and Fire Use Operations : A Workshop on the High Reliability Organization

How do we organize for high performance in a setting where the potential for error & disaster can be overwhelming? How can we best apply the High Reliability Organizing concepts into the prescribed fire & fire use arenas? And how can we overcome our immunity to change? This report summarizes how these questions & others were addressed during a 4-day workshop. Documents the day-to-day workshop chronology from its opening keynote address, through the all-day Staff Ride to the 2000 Cerro Grande Prescribed Fire site, the Staff Ride's Integration Phase, & the final day's Immunity to ChangeÓ exercise. The intent of the workshop was to introduce the latest social science to the prescribed fire & fire use management community. Illustrated.Keller, Paul is the author of 'Managing the Unexpected in Prescribed Fire and Fire Use Operations : A Workshop on the High Reliability Organization', published 2005 under ISBN 9780756749538 and ISBN 0756749530.