Firefighting, despite heavy reliance on fire prediction, hazard models, fire control and suppression technologies, is ultimately a human activity.  It requires individual firefighters to form risk assessments and initiate courses of action.

Human decision making is significantly impacted by the predictability, or otherwise, of a situation.  When fighting fires, the safety of the individual is dependent on decisions they make for themselves, as well as the decisions of others who are in positions of control.

Research in this area of the site examines safe decision making by emergency personal including developing effective leaders, issues of fatigue and computer simulations for investigating decision making.  

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