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Episode 216 | Task Fixation – A Barrier to Awareness

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Crew Resource Management, Human Factors, Hyper Vigilance, Lost Focus, Meta Awareness, Mindfulness, Perception, Preoccupation, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Task Fixation, Teamwork, Tunnel Vision, Tunneled Senses / Rich Gasaway

This episode examines how task fixation can impact situational awareness while working in high-risk environments. Length: 30 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 higher level, check out […]

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Episode 208 | Team Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attitude, Competency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Expectations, Frustration, Incompetence, Leadership, Optimism, Over Confident, Physical Fitness, Risk, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Staffing, Teamwork, Training / Rich Gasaway

In this episode we discuss the importance of team situational awareness and how it can improve or impact safety. Length: 29 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

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Episode 206 | Competing Goals

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Goals, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Miscommunications, Mission, Progress Reports, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Teamwork, Technology, Time Distortion, Training, Tunnel Vision, Tunneled Senses, Under Confident, understaffing, Vigilance, Weather, Workload Management, Worksheets / Rich Gasaway

This episode examines how competing goals 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 a higher level, check out the Situational Awareness Matters Online Academy.

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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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Firefighting: It’s a whole new ballgame

6 Comments / Accountability, Article, Complacency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Emotions, Fear, Human Behavior, Leadership, Mayday and RIT, Personnel location, Risk Assessment, Safety, Situational awareness, Situational Readiness, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Stress, Teamwork, Training, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

There is little doubt the economic recession of 2008-2009 had a significant impact on the nation’s fire service. Hardly a day went by where there wasn’t some news about an organization that downsized, rightsized or capsized. There are all kinds of explanations and terms being attached to what happened. One I heard at the time

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Episode 203 | Normalization of Deviance

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attitude, Automatic Action, Close Call, Complacency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Defiance, Denial, Error Creep, Expectations, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Incompetence, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Invincible, Judgment, Line of Duty Death, Mindfulness, Mission, Mission Myopia, Near Miss, Optimism, Over Confident, Perception Of Reality, Risk, Risk Assessment, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Stress, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

When we are operating under conditions of stress and consequence, coupled with changing conditions and time compression, we can feel a sense of urgency and this can cause us to want to take a shortcut from safety best practices. Length: 29 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen __________________________________________________

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Episode 202 | Relationship Bias

Leave a Comment / Anger, Assumptions, Biases, Communications, Competency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Defiance, Emotions, Expectations, Frustration, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Judgment, Miscommunications, Perception Of Reality, Progress Reports, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Shared Mental Models, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

The episode explores how relationship bias can impact situational awareness. Length: 29 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen

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Episode 201 | When Unexpected Things Happen

Leave a Comment / Anger, Assumptions, Cognitive Memory, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Disoriented, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Explicit Knowledge, Frustration, Gut Feeling, Human Factors, Information overload, Intuition, Judgment, Long-Term Memory, Mental Models, Neuroscience, Overload, Overwhelm, Pattern Matching, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict, Shared Mental Models, Tacit Knowledge / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we explore what happens when faced with unexpected situations and your brain tries to make sense of the unexpected. Length: 33 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen

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Explaining Resistance to Change

Leave a Comment / Article, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Ego, Expectations, Fear, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Leadership, Repetition, Safety, Size Up, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

Imagine for a moment that you’re part of a 4-person first-due crew responding on to an apartment fire. On the way to the call the dispatcher announces over the radio that a caller is reporting the fire to be on the first floor of a three-story apartment building. Your company officer tells you that on

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Episode 193 | Herd Mentality

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assertiveness, Attitude, Automatic Action, Biases, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Fear, Goals, Human Behavior, Insubordination, Judgment, Leadership, Mission, Perception, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

In this episode we discuss the cognitive bias known as herd mentality (or herd behavior). 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 Online Academy. CLICK HERE for details, enrollment

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