2019 NSC Congress & Expo

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36 - The Fatal Flub: Avoiding the Mental Mistakes That Will Kill You (Room 32A)

New York Times bestselling author Rodd Wagner began his career as a newspaper reporter covering “cops and courts,” including the emergency services that respond to fatalities. “What were they thinking?” he’d ask the incident commanders. They didn’t have an answer then, but Rodd does now. After sifting through fatal incident reports and statistics for a decade, Rodd and his aerospace engineer son have determined the vast majority of victims make one of four “fatal flubs” in the last minute before they die. Knowing how these mental mistakes happen, when they will happen and countering them is the key – when all else has failed – to staying alive.