Drone Responders Interview with Charles Werner (SAM 281)

  Charles Werner is the retired Charlottesville fire chief and 45-year public safety veteran. After retirement, Charles worked with the Virginia Department of Emergency Management from 2015 - 2017 as senior advisor/acting deputy state coordinator. Charles served in numerous leadership roles at the local, state, national levels on public safety communications, GIS, broadband, information sharing, thermal imaging, enhanced location technology, FirstNet and drones.  He chairs the National Council on Public Safety UAS and is a Certified FAA Remote Pilot. Charles also serves as Chief of Public Safety for DroneUp. Charles is an author with 120+ internationally published articles. Charles has received numerous recognitions for his work in the area of public safety technology. In 2008, he was selected as National Career Fire Chief of the Year by Fire Chief Magazine and in 2018, was selected Homeland Security Person of the Year by Homeland Security Today Magazine for work on public safety initiatives.    Contact Us www.SAMatters.com   www.RichGasaway.com   612-548-4424 (office)   651-331-8518 (cell)   Charles Werner [email protected] https://www.droneresponders.org   Link to drone presentation https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=E1AAF7F39F55B61E!15837&ithint=file%2cpptx&authkey=!AIe7SARnQfgfSTk   Get connected with SAMatters   Facebook: Follow SAMatters LinkedIn: Follow Rich Gasaway Twitter: Follow Rich Gasaway Instagram: Follow SA_Matters Youtube: Subscribe to SAMattersTV Itunes: Subscribe to SAMatters Radio Stitcher Radio: Subscribe to SAMatters Radio Google Play: Subscribe to SAMatters Radio iHeart Radio: Subscribe to SAMatters Radio   Premier Sponsor Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com   Feature Segment Sponsor Sims-U-Share Simsushare.com Associate Sponsor Chief Miller Instagram: @Chief_Miller   Firefighter Near Miss Reporting System http://www.firefighternearmiss.com/   SPONSOR THIS SHOW The SAMatters Show is the longest running, fastest growing, safety focused weekly program on the Internet. If you know a company that might be interested in advertising their product or service to our listeners and viewers, ask them to contact us by clicking the “Contact us” tab at the top of the SAMatters.com website.   Situational Awareness, Decision Making, Firefighter, Police, EMS, Safety, Environmental Health, Aviation, Military, Medical, Medicine, Industry, Industrial Safety, Construction, Situational Awareness Matters, Situational Awareness Training, First Responder, High Risk Decision Making, Preventable, Optimize Human Performance, Human error, Human Factors, Decision Making Under Stress, Near Miss, Close Call, Communications Skills, Vigilance, Judgement, Tactical Decision Making, Resilience, DroneUp, Drone Responders, Charles Werner