The difference between typical responses and special hazard responses

Is there common ground for the process between typical response scenarios and special hazard responses in industry?

Chief Gasaway's response: I am assuming in the context of this question the “process” you are referring to is Gary Klein's Recognition-Primed Decision Making (RPDM) process. In that context, the answer is the process has been proven, through research, to be universal and widely used in a variety of high-risk, high-consequence decision making environments including: Airline pilots, jet fighter pilots, submarine commanders, tank commanders, air traffic controllers, police officers, emergency room teams, surgical teams and, of course, fireground commanders.

I am not aware of a specific study of RPDM within an industrial fire protection setting but I can infer that the same principles would apply. Granted, the “typical” response scenarios found in an industrial setting are going to be different, but nonetheless many of them are common within industry and are the basis for training programs to develop expert knowledge of practitioners.

Fire Chief (ret.) Richard B. Gasaway, PhD, EFO, CFO, MICP
www.RichGasaway.com