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Episode 128 | Sleep inertia: An interview with Norfolk Fire Lieutenant Jarrod Sergi

Leave a Comment / Cognitive Memory, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Disoriented, Fatigue, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, I interview Norfolk Fire Lieutenant Jarrod Sergi as he discusses how sleep inertia impacted his awareness and decision making skills at a late-night fire. Length: 58 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision […]

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Episode 120 | Interview with Instructor John Dixon

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attitude, Automatic Action, Biases, Bravado, Complacency, Confusion, Culture, Defiance, Denial, Ego, Error Creep, Habits, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Incompetence, Invincible, Judgment, Leadership, Over Confident, Pressure, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Under Confident / Rich Gasaway

In this episode I sat down for an interview with Instructor John Dixon to discuss his passion topic – the normalization of deviance. Length: 63 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

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Episode 119 | Interview with West Metro Division Chief Dan Pfannenstiel – Part 2

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Automatic Action, Close Call, Command Location, Command Support, Communications, Confusion, Fatigue, Goals, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Mission Myopia, Muscle Memory, Personnel location, Progress Reports, Radios, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Shared Mental Models, Teamwork, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode I sat down for an interview with West Metro Division Chief Dan Pfannenstiel to discuss a near-miss that occurred at a residential dwelling fire. This is part two of a two-part interview so if you have not yet, be sure to listen to episode 118 for the set-up to the lessons

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Episode 118 | Interview with West Metro Division Chief Dan Pfannenstiel – Part 1

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Automatic Action, Close Call, Command Location, Command Support, Communications, Confusion, Fatigue, Goals, Mindfulness, Mission Myopia, Muscle Memory, Personnel location, Progress Reports, Radios, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Shared Mental Models, Teamwork, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, I sat down for an interview with West Metro Division Chief Dan Pfannenstiel to discuss a near-miss that occurred at a residential dwelling fire. This is part one of a two-part interview so be sure to also listen to episode 119 for the lessons learned. Length: 51 minutes Click the YouTube

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Episode 114 | Noise Can Impact Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Communications, Confusion, Disoriented, Distractions and Interruptions, Lost Focus, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we explore how noise can impact situational awareness of first responders. Length: 30 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

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Episode 113 | Six Red Flags for Danger

Leave a Comment / Close Call, Communications, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Emotions, Fear, Goals, Gut Feeling, Intuition, Mayday, Near Miss, Personnel location, Pressure, Risk, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Size Up, Task Fixation / Rich Gasaway

In this episode we discuss six red flags for danger that may get overlooked or ignored at a structure fire. Length: 30 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,

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Episode 111 | 19 Ways Communications can Impact Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Auditory exclusion, Biases, Communications, Confusion, Emotions, Information overload, Miscommunications, Perception, Progress Reports, Radios, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Stress, Tunneled Senses / Rich Gasaway

In this episode I share 19 ways that communications issues can impact Situational Awareness. Length: 37 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 106 | Sensory conflict can impact situational awareness

Leave a Comment / Cognitive Memory, Confusion, Disoriented, Emotions, Expectations, Lost Focus, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Pattern Matching, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Radios, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict, Size Up / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we will discuss what can happen when a person is experiencing sensory conflict and how this neurological phenomenon can impact 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

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You Can’t Handle the Truth!

4 Comments / Article, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Cognitive Memory, Confabulation, Confusion, Decision Making, Emotions, Human Behavior, Long-Term Memory, Multitasking, Sensory Conflict, Short Term Memory / Rich Gasaway

If you have attended one of my new Mental Management of Emergencies programs you have learned how stress is a game-changer when it comes to firefighter situational awareness and decision making quality. Most basic training programs focus on developing cognitive knowledge and physical skills. Far less address the impact of stress on situational awareness and

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