Richard Gasaway DVD Set

Save 15% when you purchase the DVDs as a set!

Package of four DVD programs:

• Mental Management of Emergencies
• Fifty Ways to Kill a First Responder
• Training for Failure
• Firefighter Safety: Mistakes & Best Practices

Mental Management of Emergencies: Improving first responder situational awareness and decision making under stress

Created and presented by Dr. Richard B. Gasaway, Fire Chief (ret.)

4.5 hours of content on 3 DVDs

Program Description: This 3 DVD series is designed to get first responders “into the loop” and improve your understanding of high-risk, high consequence decision making. This program reveals secrets hospitals, airlines, NASA and the Department of Defense know about how to use situational awareness to improve decision making under stress.

Fifty Ways to Kill a First Responder: Improving Emergency Services Situational Awareness

Created and presented by Dr. Richard B. Gasaway, Fire Chief (ret.)

3.5 hours of content on 3 DVDs

Program Description: This 3 DVD set is Dr. Gasaway’s research come-to-life in a lively recorded classroom presentation. This powerful program has been called “eye opening” and “a wake up call” by thousands of program attendees. The program has been presented (live) at prestigious conferences throughout the United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Australia. Here’s your opportunity to proactively and profoundly improve the situational awareness of your first response team.

Training for Failure: Understanding why some first responder training must change

Created and presented by: Dr. Richard B. Gasaway, Fire Chief (ret.)

137 minutes of content on DVD

When first responders do seemingly insane things at emergency scenes there is never a shortage of peers waiting to pass judgment and to criticize. It is very easy to be the judge and jury of flawed performance after the fact. However, no amount of judgment will result in learning from the mistakes.

This program will offer an eye-opening view into how responders are being trained to fail, why those who are training them don’t know they’re doing it and how to fix the problem.

Firefighter Safety: Mistakes and Best Practices

Created and presented by: Dr. Richard B. Gasaway, Fire Chief (ret.)

119 minutes of content on DVD

This program examines mistakes that result in firefighter casualties and offers best practices to fix the mistakes and improve the safety of your firefighters. This program is based on Dr. Gasaway’s examination of more than 500 firefighter near-miss and casualty reports.

Part 1 of this program discusses ten common mistakes occurring during near-miss and line-of-duty casualty incidents, including issued related to:

– Staffing

– Communications

– Command competency

– Size-up

– Strategy

– Resource management

– Standard operating procedures/guidelines

– Command location

– Training

– Complacency

Part 2 shares ten best practices your fire department can implement to help manage and overcome the most common mistakes.