Mission Critical Sleep: Building Sleep Resilience in Disasters
Melissa Lawlor

No lectures. No PowerPoints. Instead, you (first responders, emergency managers, chief officers, sleep scientists), will jump into a facilitated, peer-driven conversation. We’ll unpack the latest cutting-edge research and your worst-case sleep scenarios from disaster zones… and then hash them out with each other.
 

We’ll tackle questions like:

• How do we prevent critical errors when sleep is optional after a 36-hour mass casualty call?

• What micro rest or station-based nap strategies can sustain alertness during rolling deployments?

• Can agencies integrate sleep checks into SOPs without being seen as soft, or ditching the mission?

• How do we teach elected officials and admin bosses that “sleep management” isn’t fluff, it’s mission assurance?

• What’s the tipping point between resilience and collapse among crews, and how do we catch it before it’s too late?

 

You’ll share tactics, challenge assumptions, and depart with concrete strategies to bring back to shift briefings and after-action processes.