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Episode 185 | St. Charles Fire Department Near Miss – Part 3

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Close Call, Command Location, Communications, Complacency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Judgment, Mayday, Miscommunications, Mission Myopia, Near Miss, Over Confident, Perception Of Reality, Personal Protective Equipment, Personnel location, Radios, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Teamwork, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

This episode is part 3 of a 3-part interview with two members of the St. Charles Fire Department (Missouri) discussing a near-miss where four firefighters were overrun by rapidly changing conditions at a residential dwelling fire. Length: 48 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of […]

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Complex Communications

4 Comments / Article, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Communications, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Information overload, Mayday and RIT, Safety, Situational awareness, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Stress / Rich Gasaway

We have many traits that make us uniquely human. Among them is our ability to engage in complex communications. We can look at black ink squiggled on a piece of bleached paper and derive meaning from those symbols. We call that skill reading comprehension. And we can listen to and comprehend the meaning of more

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Episode 184 | St. Charles Fire Department Near Miss – Part 2

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Close Call, Command Location, Communications, Complacency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Judgment, Mayday, Miscommunications, Mission Myopia, Near Miss, Over Confident, Perception Of Reality, Personal Protective Equipment, Personnel location, Progress Reports, Radios, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Teamwork, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

This episode is part 2 of a 3-part interview with two members of the St. Charles Fire Department (Missouri) discussing a near-miss where four firefighters were overrun by rapidly changing conditions at a residential dwelling fire. Length: 45 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen

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Episode 183 | St. Charles Fire Department Near Miss – Part 1

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Close Call, Command Location, Communications, Complacency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Judgment, Mayday, Miscommunications, Mission Myopia, Near Miss, Over Confident, Perception Of Reality, Personal Protective Equipment, Personnel location, Progress Reports, Radios, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Teamwork, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

This episode is part 1 of a 3-part interview with two members of the St. Charles Fire Department (Missouri) discussing a near-miss where four firefighters were overrun by rapidly changing conditions at a residential dwelling fire. Length: 56 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding

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Chatty TSA Agents

1 Comment / Accountability, Article, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Experience, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Information overload, Interruptions, Multitasking / Rich Gasaway

It is possible that while you are attempting to pay attention to something, you can be drawn off your task by distractions or interruptions to your workload. A distraction is something that pulls your attention away by accident (like a reflex look in the direction of a loud noise). An interruption is something that pulls

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Episode 178 | Explaining Tunnel Vision

Leave a Comment / Auditory exclusion, Confusion, Decision Making, Disoriented, Distractions and Interruptions, Hyper Vigilance, Interruptions, Meta Awareness, Overload, Perception, Preoccupation, SAMatters Radio, Task Fixation, Tunnel Vision, Tunneled Senses / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores the impact that tunnel vision can have on the development of situational awareness. 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

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Episode 174 | Complex Communications

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Auditory exclusion, Communications, Confusion, Expectations, Miscommunications, Progress Reports, Radios, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores the challenges of how complex communications can impact situational awareness. Length: 24 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. CLICK HERE for details,

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Anchoring Bias as a Barrier to Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Distractions and Interruptions, Ego, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Meta Awareness, Neuroscience, Repetition, Safety, Tacit Knowledge / Rich Gasaway

There are over 100 cognitive biases that can impact situational awareness, and subsequently, decision making. Many of these biases are discussed during the Mental Management of Emergencies and Flawed Situational Awareness programs because it is important for responders to understand that we may possess a bias without knowing it and without knowing the impact of

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Explanations for Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 3

Leave a Comment / Article, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Communications, Confabulation, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Information overload, Neuroscience, Safety, Situational awareness, Size Up, Stress, Tacit Knowledge, Task Saturation, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

This series is focused on the seemingly insane things that first responders do while operating in high-stress, high-consequence environments. Oftentimes, those trying to make sense of these behaviors are quick to judge the participants, saying things like: “How could they be so stupid?” or “What were they thinking?” or perhaps the worst one of all

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Episode 138 | Nine considerations when evaluating incident command software.

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Automation, Command Support, Communications, Decision Making, Equipment, Information overload, Miscommunications, Overload, Preoccupation, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Shared Mental Models, Task Fixation, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss 9 things you should consider when evaluating your purchase of incident command software. 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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