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Episode 182 | Colorado Springs FD Interview – Part 2

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Automatic Action, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Competency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Expectations, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Insubordination, Judgment, Leadership, Mayday and RIT, Risk Assessment, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

This episode is part 2 of an interview with three members of the Colorado Springs Fire Department discussing recruit training, using science to teach firefighting and more. Length: 50 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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Episode 181 | Colorado Springs FD Interview – Part 1

This episode is part 1 of an interview with three members of the Colorado Springs Fire Department discussing recruit training, using science to teach firefighting and more. Length: 55 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen

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Communications Overload Impacts Situational Awareness

4 Comments / Article, Attention Management, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Safety, Situational awareness, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In reading casualty reports you will often see issues related to communications as a contributing factor. Miscommunications, lack of communications or too much radio traffic (to include overloaded radio channels) are often cited. It is the last of these issues I want to address. There is an inherent cognitive consequence from too much communications that

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Episode 180 | Accountability

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Benchmarks, Checklists, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Leadership, Miscommunications, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Staffing, Workload Management, Worksheets / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores how accountability can improve 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 Online Academy. CLICK HERE for details,

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Episode 179 | Coordinated Actions

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Automatic Action, Command Presence, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Leadership, Progress Reports, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork, Training / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores how coordinated actions can improve situational awareness. 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 out the Situational Awareness Matters Online Academy. CLICK HERE for details, enrollment

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Buildings are Disposable

7 Comments / Accountability, Article, Building Construction, Communications, Complacency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Ego, Emotions, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Leadership, Mayday and RIT, Risk Assessment, Safety, Situational awareness, Size Up, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

Buildings are disposable. People are not! This guest editorial contribution is provided by Chief John Buckman III, Director of the Indiana State Fire Training and Certification System. Chief Buckman posted this piece on Facebook and, with his permission, it is being reposted here. The message is short and powerful.

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Duty to Die Syndrome

8 Comments / Accountability, Article, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Ego, Emotions, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Safety, Situational awareness, Situational Readiness, Teamwork, Training / Rich Gasaway

I recently sent out a message across my social media networks (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn) about bravado being a barrier to situational awareness. The message, in case you missed it, read: Bravado: The purposeful ignorance of critical signs of danger coupled with a sense of invincibility. A barrier to situational awareness. First responders sometimes confuse

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Appoint a DA to improve your SA

1 Comment / Accountability, Article, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Ego, Fear, Human Behavior, Risk Assessment, Safety, Situational awareness, Training / Rich Gasaway

In the business world it is not uncommon for executives to appoint someone on the senior staff to serve as the Devil’s Advocate (DA) when considering a major strategic decision. The role of the DA is to look at the strategy from a critical perspective and to raise objections about flaws in the strategy before

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Aggressiveness and Situational Awareness

7 Comments / Article, Building Construction, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Emotions, Human Behavior, Safety, Situational awareness, Size Up, Staffing, Stress, Teamwork, Training / Rich Gasaway

I was recently contacted by email from a Situational Awareness Matters member asking if aggressiveness and safety can co-exist at an emergency scene. My answer was “of course they can.” The two actions, being safe and being aggressive are not mutually exclusive. To think they are is to believe responders must sacrifice safety when they

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Aggressive versus conservative

3 Comments / Article, Checklists, Close Call, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Leadership, Line of Duty Death, Risk Assessment, Safety, Training / Rich Gasaway

There is an ongoing debate in the fire service. Unless you are unplugged from social media and online journals, you’re surely aware of it. On one end of the argument are those who believe the fire service is tactically too aggressive and purport this may be contributing to casualties. On the other side of the

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