The Leader's Toolbox: Sustaining Public Safety Training Facilities
Dr. Richard B. Gasaway talks with Bill Booth, president of the Interact Business Group. His business focuses on creating business plans for public safety training facilities around the country.
Gasaway and Booth discuss the need to outline and develop a solid plan for training facilities in the day and age when budgets are scrutinized. Booth talks about the need to create training grounds that can be used by multiple agencies, including the non-traditional groups.
Booth shares finding from a series of research papers where 2,000 people were allowed to drive city-owned vehicles without any formal training. The city utilized the fire trainig facility to increase driver safety for city employees. He also talks about a California fire department that was unable maintain a cadre of insturctors from within and how outsourcing saved a large sum of money.
Hear how partnerships and planning can afford your department a state-of-the-art training facility.
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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.