Academically: Mr. Guenthner holds advanced degrees in Emergency Management, Occupational Safety and Health, and Environmental Management. Mr. Guenthner is working on completing a book based upon his dissertation research. Mr. Guenthner is a scholarly practitioner still conducting quantitative research in wildland firefighter organizational safety culture using Cooper's (2000) Reciprocal Determinism Model, extending a recent study using the same model in the urban fire service. His dissertation topic was: Safety in the Context of Organizational Culture: Developing a Model Safety Culture within the U.S. Wildland Fire Service.Practitioner:I have 30 plus years of environmental, health, safety, and emergency management experience in the public & private sectors. I am ICS 100, 200, 300, 400, 700, and 800 trained plus a number of other FEMA EMI courses. I am focusing on emergency management, urban and rural fire fighter safety (e.g. interoperability (communications), CERT, infrastructure hardening, preparedness/mitigation, firefighter safety and leadership, and business continuity). I have recently completed my ICS All Hazards Resource Unit Leader training and opened a task book. Advocating for wildland firefighter safety at the local, state, and Federal levels. Specialties: PIO, RESL,training & Instructing, ethics and leadership, CERT, ICS & NIMS, response plan development & disaster training exercises, government & compliance liaison, development & implementation of EH&S programs, mentor, facilitator, team player, multimedia auditor, CAL-OSHA safety management, CAL-EPA & AZ environmental management, CUPA permit management, AZ OSHA & OR OSHA Consultant, Certified Police Officer (NE) Certified Firefighter I (KS), previously certified EMT (KS), Federal OSHA Outreach 10- & 30-hour certified instructor
Listed skills include Emergency Management, Hazardous Materials Management, Homeland Security, Nims, and 46 others.
