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Flawed Expectations of Personnel Can Impact Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Anger, Article, Attention Management, Checklists, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Emotions, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Leadership, Neuroscience, Risk Assessment, Safety, Situational awareness, Tacit Knowledge, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

You develop situational awareness by using your senses to capture information (Level 1 situational awareness). Those clues and cues are then processed into understanding (Level 2 situational awareness). Once you understand what is happening, you can then make predictions of future events (Level 3 situational awareness). This article focuses on the third level of situational […]

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Imagination Can Influence Situational Awareness

1 Comment / Article, Attention Management, Confabulation, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Neuroscience, Safety, Situational awareness / Rich Gasaway

If I were to tell you that on an emergency scene it is possible for you to use X-Ray vision, you’d probably think I’ve been watching too many Superman movies. But it is possible for you to look right through a solid object on an emergency scene and see what’s beyond it. Seriously! Read on…

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Episode 205 | Frustration

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Anger, Assumptions, Attention Management, Attitude, Command Presence, Communications, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Defiance, Denial, Disoriented, Expectations, Frustration, Human Behavior, Preoccupation, SAMatters Radio, Stress / Rich Gasaway

This episode examines how frustration can impact your situational awareness. Length: 27 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to a higher level, check out the Situational Awareness Matters Online Academy.

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Fifteen Situational Awareness Barriers

2 Comments / Accountability, Article, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Confabulation, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Information overload, Multitasking, Neuroscience, Prediction, Repetition, Safety, Situational awareness, Task Saturation, Tunneled Senses / Rich Gasaway

The mission of Situational Awareness Matters is to help you see the bad things coming… in time to change bad outcomes. SA is a complex neurological process and I go to painstaking efforts to ensure that what I teach here, on the podcast and in classrooms is “first responder friendly.” I don’t ever want a

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Episode 200 | Chesterfield County Interview – Part 3

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assertiveness, Assumptions, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Benchmarks, Building Construction, Cognitive Memory, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Confusion, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Information overload, Interruptions, Judgment, Meta Awareness, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Near Miss, Overload, Personnel location, Pre Arrival Lens, Prediction, Pressure, Progress Reports, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict, Shared Mental Models, Size Up, Staffing, Stress, Task Fixation, Training, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

This episode is the third (and final) segment of an interview with Chesterfield County Battalion Chief Joy Knicely and Captain Rick Grassel. Length: 50 minutes click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO of this interview! __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making

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Episode 199 | Chesterfield County Interview – Part 2

This episode is part two of a three-part interview with Chesterfield County Battalion Chief Joy Knicely and Captain Rick Grassel. Length: 58 minutes click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO of this interview! __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to a

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Episode 198 | Chesterfield County Interview – Part 1

1 Comment / Accountability, Assertiveness, Assumptions, Attention Management, Benchmarks, Building Construction, Cognitive Memory, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Confusion, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Information overload, Interruptions, Judgment, Meta Awareness, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Near Miss, Overload, Personnel location, Pre Arrival Lens, Prediction, Pressure, Progress Reports, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict, Shared Mental Models, Size Up, Staffing, Stress, Task Fixation, Training, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

This episode is part one of a three-part interview with Chesterfield County Battalion Chief Joy Knicely and Captain Rick Grassel. Length: 46 minutes click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO of this interview! __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to a

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Divided Attention Test

3 Comments / Article, Attention Management, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Multitasking / Rich Gasaway

In a recent Mental Management of Emergencies program, we were talking about multitasking. During the discussion I explained what happens when a person attempts to multitask the act of paying of attention – which is neurologically impossible by the way. This turned the discussion to a sobriety test administered by police officers called the Divided

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Episode 189 | Communications Overload

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Information overload, Mayday, Miscommunications, Overload, Radios, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening / Rich Gasaway

This episode discusses the cognitive overload that can occur when there is too much verbal information to process. Length: 31 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to a higher level, check out the Situational Awareness Matters

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Episode 188 | When the puzzle pieces don’t fit

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attention Management, Automatic Action, Command Presence, Complacency, Confusion, Decision Making, Denial, Expectations, Gut Feeling, Illness, Intuition, Meta Awareness, Mission Myopia, Near Miss, Personnel location, Pre Arrival Lens, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Task Fixation, Teamwork, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

This episode discusses the confusion that can occur when the information you gather during size-up do not fit your expectations of what you thought you were going to see or hear. Length: 35 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness

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