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HOw to build Risk Communication Protocols
I am excited to bring you the Risk Communication Protocols (RCP) training guide!
RCPs are all about building resilience and communication on your team or crew. To do that you just answer 4 Questions, by the end of that you’ve built a set of RCPs for your crew. Then you just train with your RCPs and update them over time. I walk you through it step-by-step in the training guide.
It was part of my most recent book Communciation When It Counts. I decided to break out the RCP section so it’s easy to download, print, write on, and forward it to other people who could use it.
I look forward to hearing from you on how you answered the 4 Questions, and how the RCPs worked for you!
-Brad
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Communication When It Counts:
A Step-by-Step Guide for Leaders to Level Up Resilience for High-Risk Operations
Leaders know: In a high-risk environment, you can’t see everything. So you rely on good information from the rest of the team. The problem is, communication can break down just when it counts the most.
Imagine you were leading a fire crew, and something bad happened to them. Then you find out that they saw warning signs leading up to the accident, but that information never made it to you. For many leaders this is a nightmare scenario.
Many firefighters and leaders I interviewed in accident investigations saw that scenario become their reality.
I don’t want it to become your reality, and that is what drove me to write this book.
In this book I will do my best to distill my knowledge gained through investigating accidents and close calls, teaching human factors, interviewing leaders, and fighting fire.
The purpose of this book is to give leaders knowledge and tools that will help you build better communication on your crew or team. So you can be more resilient when your situation is highly dynamic, ambiguous, risky, or complex.
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Origins
(Learning From Granite Mountain - Anchor Point 1)
In 2013, The Yarnell Hill Fire took nineteen firefighters from the Granite Mountain Hotshot Crew. This accident was the tragedy of our generation. Seven years later, how much has the fire service learned? Not much. We can change this.
And we will.
The Learning from Granite Mountain — Anchor Point Book Series will transform how you lead and how you learn. Future books will take you into aspects of history, human factors, and investigations in the American Fire Service. This series was not written from an ivory tower, and it’s not like other fire books you may have read.
It’s an expedition.
It all starts here at Origins. In this book, I will introduce you to the world of fire and hotshots, innovators and investigators, as I know them.
Join me by a warming fire on a ridge in the middle of nowhere. Under the pull-up bars at my fire station in Southern California. In a garage, with nothing but dirty hands and a blank sheet of paper. In the lobby of a Phoenix hotel, when I accepted the job of Lead Investigator in 2013. And in Prescott, Arizona years later, as I struggled to figure out what went so wrong, and how to unlock a generation of innovation.
The expedition starts here.