Introduction
Welcome to S-420, Command and General Staff pre-course work.

In this pre-course work you will think about teamwork in your functional area and complete a reading assignment.

Objectives
Students will :

1.Generate questions related to teamwork in your functional area.

2.Become familiar with the Findings from the Wildland Firefighters Human Factors Workshop publication.

Instructions
1. Submit at least three questions regarding how your functional area works in a team environment that you would like answered in this course.  Email your questions to your course coordinator as directed.

2. Read the assigned pages from the publication “Findings from the Wildland Firefighters Human Factors Workshop”.

a. Pages 1-22, Part 1-3
Part 1: http://www.wildfirelessons.net/documents/HumanFactorsWksp_1995_Part1.pdf
Part 2: http://www.wildfirelessons.net/documents/HumanFactors_Wksp_1995_Part2.pdf
Part 3: http://www.wildfirelessons.net/documents/HumanFactorsWksp_1995_Part3.pdf

b. South Canyon Revisited:  Lessons from High Reliability Organizations by Karl E. Weick, pages 42-53, Part 4.

Part 4: http://www.wildfirelessons.net/documents/HumanFactorsWksp_1995_Part4.pdf

c. The Collapse of Decision Making and Organizational Structure on Storm King Mountain by Ted Putnam, pages 54-58, Part 4.

Part 4: http://www.wildfirelessons.net/documents/HumanFactorsWksp_1995_Part4.pdf

Reference Material
Reference

Technical Requirements
MS Word or MS Wordpad

-Adobe Reader(Download)

-Email program (Lotus Notes, Outlook, MSN, AOL, etc.)