wifire : Message: Webinar: Learning from escaped prescribed fire reviews-intial results Feb 21

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Learning from Escaped Prescribed Fire Reviews: Initial Results

Anne Black will present a webinar on February 21, 1 PM MST on recent research on lessons learned from reviews of escaped prescribed fire events. By interagency policy, after an escaped prescribed fire managed by the federal government, an official review must be prepared. These seek to describe the cause of the escape and make recommendations to ensure that an escape for similar reasons does not occur in the future. Current paradigms guiding reviews have evolved over the past decade and now focus on organizational learning as opposed to individual accountability for all but the most serious accidents. Whatever review style or context, reviewing agencies make the assumption that, once a review has been prepared, approved and sent out to field units, learning has or will occur. Yet, as organizational learning expert David Garvin notes, a lesson is not learned just because the reason for an error or accident is known; true learning only occurs when individual behaviors change in the field.

Through a series of 5 interagency workshops, we sought to characterize current learning from escaped prescribed fire reviews. In this presentation, I will share some of the key themes that emerged from these workshops – barriers and facilitators, gaps and opportunities for improving learning at unit and organizational scales.

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