Special Report. The After-Action Critique: Training Through Lessons Learned; Technical rept. series

摘要

The fire service is always seeking ways to improve its operations. At training classes and seminars, fire service members seek out insight into tactics and discuss new technologies for their applicability to other jurisdictions. Lessons also are learned from each response to an emergency incident. Unfortunately, many of those experiences and lessons are limited to those who were involved directly in responding. Unless feedback on incident response and command is shared with other personnel in the fire department, a valuable learning opportunity can be lost. The fire service has a duty to its members and the community it serves to evaluate problematic incidents, as well as those that go extremely well, and communicate the findings (including the lessons learned), to all relevant emergency personnel. An effective way to accomplish this is through a postincident critique.