2005 International Wildland Fire Safety Summit

The 8th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit as organized by the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will take place in Missoula, Montana, April 26-28, 2005. The theme of the 2005 summit is Human Factors Ten Years Later since it will represent the 10th anniversary of the Wildland Firefighters Human Factors Workshop held in Missoula in June 1995 .

The following oral presentations have tentatively been scheduled for delivery over the course of the three-day summit in 2005:

Keynote Address: Human Factors and Wildland Firefighter Safety -- Where Have We Been and Where Do We Need To Go?
TEFF: The Ten Essential Factors in Firefighting
Wildland Fire Leadership Development Program
Five Years of SAFENET
What Factors Influence the Risk Perception of Volunteer Firefighters
High Tech Versus Low Tech Training
How Do We Want Our/Your People To Behave? An Empirical Study In Fire Organization-Type III Incidents
10 Years of Progress: Research and Development in Human Performance
Cedar Fire Review and Analysis
Staff Rides: An Interactive Tool for Wildland Firefighter Education
A Progress Report on the Entrapment Avoidance Project -- Solving Crew Cohesion Problems on Fires: Leader's Stories
Fatigue, Decision Making, and the Fireline
Effective Communications in Wildland Firefighting: Can Wildland Fire Organizations Really Walk the Talk?
Developing a Comprehensive Operational Performance Improvement Program
Changes in Crew Lead Attitudes About Organizational Culture and Safety Since 1998
Use of Human Factors Analysis for Wildland Fire Accident Investigations
Human Factors Review Interview Protocol
Integral Leadership for High Reliability Organizing
Eruptive Fire Behavior in Past Fatal Accidents
Liability Issues Related to Wildland Fire: Personal, Civil and Criminal
Command Decisions during Catastrophic Interface Wildfires
Improving After Action Review (AAR) Practice
Wisdom in the Lessons Learned Library: Work Ethics and Firefighter Identities in the Fire Orders
Fire Behavior vs. Human Behavior - Why Lessons from Cramer Matter

Certainly one of the highlights of the summit will be the attendance of noted author John N. Maclean who will speaking at the banquet on the topic of "What has changed - and what hasn't changed - in the 10 years since the 1994 South Canyon Fire".

A poster session will also be an integral part of the summit. Sample titles so far submitted include:

Human Behavior Associated with Fatal Accidents of 2003 in Portugal
Firefighter Safety Management: An Annotated Bibliography
Travel Rates of Alberta Wildland Firefighters Using Escape Routes

If you are planning to attend the summit please consider presenting a poster paper. Dr. Marty Alexander (mea2@telus.net), a Senior Researcher with the FERIC Wildland Fire Operations Research Group, is a member of the summit planning committee and is also responsible for coordinating the poster session. Contact Dr. Alexander for further information.

For additional details on the summit visit the IAWF website (http://www.iawfonline.org/).