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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Jan. 15, as reports started trickling in that a U.S. Airways plane had gone down in the Hudson River off Manhattan, the first question that entered many minds was “How many souls were lost?” But ...

Resolve Maritime Academy (RMA) has ordered the Transas Techsim 5000, DNV approved, Class A, Full Mission Engine Room Simulator for their new simulation facility in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The new ...

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 ...

Perhaps the best place to open a discussion about critical decision-making would be to mention the three "decision outcome avenues" that CRM identifies. The best accident that we can experience is, of ...