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AAMS conducts inaugural safety academy
The Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) recently held its first Safety Management Transport Academy.

The Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) recently held its first Safety Management Transport Academy. The first four-day course is the initial installment of a two-year program designed to provide “an educational background to people in the air medical and critical-care ground industries about the science and philosophy of safety,” said AAMS executive director Dawn Mancuso. 

“Folks involved in these industries are, many times, passionate about safety but they do not have the academic background and training around safety,” Mancuso said. “They might have some anecdotal information or things they have learned from hard knocks on site. There are some notable exceptions where organizations have safety experts on staff, but the vast majority of the industry has not been exposed to the science of safety, and that is the goal of the school.” 

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