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My life changed forever in a split second. The John Moore Story Part 2 – SAM 364

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attitude, Close Call, Communications, Decision Making, Emotions, Expectations, Fear, Habits, Human Error, Invincible, Judgment, Lost Focus, Mindfulness, Mission Myopia, Near Miss, Over Confident, Personal Protective Equipment, Personnel location, Pre Arrival Lens, Prediction, Preoccupation, Pressure, Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Size Up, Task Fixation, Training, Tunnel Vision, Vigilance, Weather / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, Firefighter-Paramedic John Moore continues the story of how his life was changed forever after an off-duty accident resulted in a permanent paralyzing spinal cord injury. John Moore lives in Southwest Ohio with his wife of nearly 15 years and their two children (ages 7 and 9). He attended Sinclair Community College directly […]

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My life changed forever in a split second. The John Moore Story Part 1 – SAM 363

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attitude, Close Call, Communications, Complacency, Decision Making, Emotions, Expectations, Fear, Habits, Human Error, Invincible, Judgment, Lost Focus, Mindfulness, Mission Myopia, Near Miss, Over Confident, Personal Protective Equipment, Personnel location, Pre Arrival Lens, Prediction, Preoccupation, Pressure, Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Size Up, Task Fixation, Training, Tunnel Vision, Vigilance, Weather / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, Firefighter-Paramedic John Moore shares the story of how his life was changed forever after an off-duty accident resulted in a permanent paralyzing spinal cord injury. John Moore lives in Southwest Ohio with his wife of nearly 15 years and their two children (ages 7 and 9). He attended Sinclair Community College directly

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Peer Pressure – SAM 356

Leave a Comment / Assertiveness, Attitude, Bravado, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Ego, Emotions, Expectations, Fear, Frustration, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Insubordination, Invincible, Judgment, Leadership, Neuroscience, Over Confident, Pressure, Progress Reports, Risk, Risk Management, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Teamwork, Under Confident / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores our basic human desire to be liked and respected. Not only do we want to be liked, but we also have a very strong internal drive to avoid embarrassment. These traits of human behavior can result in peer pressure that can, in turn, impact your situational awareness. First responders spend a

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Five Situational Awareness Lessons from a LODD Incident – SAM 354

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attitude, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Building Construction, Close Call, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Communications, Competency, Complacency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Distractions and Interruptions, Emotions, Equipment, Error Creep, Excited, Expectations, Experience, Explicit Knowledge, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Goals, Gut Feeling, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Hyper Vigilance, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Information overload, Judgment, Leadership, Line of Duty Death, Lost Focus, Mayday, Mayday and RIT, Mental Models, Meta Awareness, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Mission, Mission Myopia, Neuroscience, PAR, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Personal Protective Equipment, Personnel location, Prediction, Preoccupation, Progress Reports, Radios, Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Situational awareness, Situational Readiness, Size Up, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Tacit Knowledge, Task Fixation, Teamwork, Vigilance, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

On June 2, 2011, the San Francisco Fire Department suffered the tragic loss of 2 firefighters at 133 Berkeley Way. The episode shares some valuable situational awareness lessons from this tragic incident. The San Francisco Fire Department conducted an internal review of the incident and issued a 156-page report on their findings. Many of the

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The Origins of Intuition – SAM 352

Leave a Comment / Automatic Action, Cognitive Memory, Decision Making, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Explicit Knowledge, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Intuition, Judgment, Long-Term Memory, Mental Models, Mindfulness, Muscle Memory, Neuroscience, Pattern Matching, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Situational awareness, Situational Readiness, Tacit Knowledge / Rich Gasaway

In this episode we explore the neuroscience behind causes your “gut feeling” – Intuition – and why you might want to pay attention to it. It is amazing how many articles and videos I have watched lately in which they are talking about decision making based on “gut feel.” It is also disheartening how many

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The Overconfident Incompetent – SAM 351

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attitude, Automatic Action, Biases, Bravado, Cognitive Memory, Competency, Decision Making, Ego, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Explicit Knowledge, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Incompetence, Invincible, Judgment, Leadership, Optimism, Over Confident, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Risk, Risk Management, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Tacit Knowledge / Rich Gasaway

In this episode discusses the process for competency development and introduces the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a cognitive bias whereby unskilled people suffer from the illusion of having superior skills and knowledge. Description This discussion includes the four steps in the progression of competency: Step 1: Unconscious incompetence – being unaware of what you do

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The Jason Corthell Story. The Next Chapter. Part 2 – SAM 348

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Anger, Assertiveness, Attitude, Close Call, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Emotions, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Illness, Judgment, Mayday, Mayday and RIT, Near Miss, Personal Protective Equipment, Personnel location, Physical Fitness, Radios, Repetition, Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Situational Readiness, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

On March 27, 2015, Cypress Creek District Chief Jason Corthell was trapped and injured during a fire where a stairwell unexpectedly collapsed at an apartment building fire in Texas. This is Part 2 of his follow-up story and the road to physical and mental recovery. Back on Episode 55, then Cypress Creek Lieutenant Jason Corthell

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The Jason Corthell Story. The Next Chapter. Part 1 – SAM 347

On March 27, 2015, Cypress Creek District Chief Jason Corthell was trapped and injured during a fire where a stairwell unexpectedly collapsed at an apartment building fire in Texas. This the follow-up story of his road to physical and mental recovery. Back on Episode 55, then Cypress Creek Lieutenant Jason Corthell shared his close call

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Mental Health Near-Miss: The Scott Gieselhart Story – Part 2 (Episode 334)

Accountability, Anger, Attitude, Close Call, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Decision Making, Denial, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Fear, Frustration, Human Behavior, Illness, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Near Miss, Neuroscience, Overwhelm, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Pressure, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness / Rich Gasaway

Scott Gieselhart served 24 years as a firefighter in Frazee, Minnesota. Along the way, several incidents contributed to Scott developing a Post Traumatic Stress Injury that resulted in him becoming a meth addict and attempting suicide. Then Scott found help and through a treatment known as EMDR, his PTSI was healed and how he serves

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Mental Health Near-Miss: The Scott Gieselhart Story – Part 1 (Episode 333)

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