Dr. Richard B. Gasaway talks with Charles A. (Chad) Weinstein about ethics in the fire service. Weinstein is president of Ethical Leaders in Action, a Minnesota-based company that provides leadership and strategy development training and consulting.
The two look at the role of ethics in leading public safety agencies, but focus on the fire service. Weinstein works with fire and police agencies in the Midwest to help the officers and firefighters develop a plan to keep all members on the same page.
Listen as Weinstein discusses how fire departments, whether career, paid-on-call or volunteer, can be affected by the smallest actions. That action can have big impact that puts the agency in a negative light.
About the Author
Richard Gasaway
Richard B. Gasaway, PhD, CSP is an authority on human factors, situational awareness and the high-risk decision-making processes that are used in high-stress, high-consequence work environments. He served 33 years as a firefighter, EMT-paramedic, company officer, training officer, fire chief and emergency incident commander. Gasaway's doctoral research included the study of cognitive neuroscience to understand how human factors flaw situational awareness and affect high-risk decision-making. He authored six books, and his contributions on situational awareness and decision-making are featured and referenced in more than 400 publications. Gasaway's training programs have been delivered to more than 88,000 students.