I first wrote this article on the FirefighterNation website way back in 2009, before I was involved in Safety Wise and knee-deep in investigations. The Dirty Dozen can easily be applied to any industry however, in this article, given the audience, I focussed on firefighting and emergency response. The original article I wrote can be found at https://my.firefighternation.com/profiles/blogs/avoiding-the-dirty-dozen-on Gordon Dupont wrote about Human Factors and how to avoid the