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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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Fear can be a barrier to situational awareness

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Article, Assumptions, Bravado, Close Call, Decision Making, Emotions, Fear, Human Factors, Judgment, Optimism, Risk Assessment / Rich Gasaway

Everyone has fears and fear can certainly impact a person’s situational awareness. Some people are better at controlling their fears while others are controlled by their fears. Some people mask their fears well while others wear their fear on their sleeves. Some people live in denial of their fears and others face their fears and

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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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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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Developing Situational Awareness in Novice Responders

4 Comments / Article, Competency, Decision Making, Emotions, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Neuroscience, Repetition, Safety, Simulation, Situational awareness, Training / Rich Gasaway

One of the most frequent questions I get asked during the Mental Management of Emergencies and Fifty Ways to Kill a First Responder programs is: How can a novice responder develop expert knowledge when the number of fires are going down? It’s a great question and a great concern because so much of situational awareness

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Culture And Situational Awareness

3 Comments / Accountability, Article, Communications, Complacency, Culture, Decision Making, Ego, Emotions, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Leadership, Safety, Situational awareness, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

Each member of an emergency response team is guided by a unique system of values, beliefs, assumptions and norms. Every member also brings their own unique habits and routines. What happens when you combine the values, beliefs, assumptions, norms, habits and routines of many unique individuals within an organization? You create culture. Organizational culture can

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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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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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