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Vision Zero White Paper is complete and available for download. Click here.

Continue distribution of On The Fly, a monthly newsletter with articles specific to aviation and patient safety.

Incorporate "best practices" session(s) at the AMTC and the AAMS Spring Conference that highlight innovative and replicable safety programs.

Select presentations from the 2007 AAMS Spring Conference are available for download - click here to visit the Spring Conference web page.

Some of the sessions planned at the AMTC in Tampa include:
*Protecting Us From Ourselves: Aviation Human Factors
*Crew Personal Survival Kits: What's In Your Pocket?
*Creating a Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQUA) Program
*Before, During and After: Lessons Learned from Crash Survivors
*Safety's Top 10 Killer Attitudes
*Adverse Events and Errors: How Does Your System Compare?
*A Tale of Two Rotors: An Update on HEMS Accidents, Individual Risk and Risk Managment
*Critical Thinking in "Crunch Time"
*The Great Debate: Hospital -based HEMS vs. Community-based HEMS
*What Were They Thinking?
*Creating a Culture of Safety
*How to Measure Compliance in Your Safety Program
*Human Factors and Adverse Event Management in the Transport Environment
*Is It Safe? New Vehicle Technology and Extrication Safety for Flight Crews
Visit the AMTC web page for details on all education sessions scheduled in Tampa...

Work with the Foundation for Air-Medical Research and Education (FARE) to continue research specifically related to aviation, ground or patient SAFETY.

Examples of safety grants funded by FARE in 2006 include:
* Feasibility of Integration of Automatic Crash Notification into an ASP deployed Air Medical Transport Integrated
Information System, a Pilot Study
* The Effects of Acute Stress on Paramedic Performance
* 2005 Pilot Safety Survey - Narrative Response Analysis
* Determinants of Safety - More Results from the Pilots Survey of 2005

Work with American Eurocopter to honor the annual recipient of the American Eurocopter Vision Zero Aviation Safety Award, given in recognition of new and innovative ideas to promote safety and help raise the bar for the entire air ambulance community.

Promote the Air Medical Resource Management (AMRM) program developed by Michelle North.
Using the recent FAA AMRM Advisory Circular we are recommending that every program provide yearly training. It will also be the Vision Zero goal that everyone in our community has attended one of these classes within three years. Classes are offered each fall at the annual Air Medical Transport Conference.

Continue to offer Air Medical Safety Officer Training at the AMTC. This course is designed for safety officers, management personnel and others interested in safety oversight.

Work to increase the number of weather reporting stations, especially in rural and mountainous areas where weather reporting is lacking.

Continue to promote Safety Awareness with a variety of Vision Zero products - wristbands, patches and stickers.