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The Art of Speaking Up

2 Comments / Accountability, Article, Emotions, Fear, Human Behavior, Leadership, Size Up, Stress / Rich Gasaway

Recently I received a phone call from a fire captain in Colorado. He wanted to discuss some training ideas I inspired during my recent Training for Failure program his department hosted. One of the topics we addressed was teaching firefighters how to speak up when they have concerns. Teaching how to do this is especially […]

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Eagle Scout – First Responder: The Daniel Konzelman Story (Episode 255)

1 Comment / Attitude, Automatic Action, Communications, Competency, Confusion, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Emotions, Excited, Expectations, Experience, Fear, Information overload, Judgment, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Overwhelm, Pressure, Risk, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Stress, Teamwork, Time Distortion, Training / Rich Gasaway

Daniel Konzelman is an Eagle Scout and an accountant who found himself in the most unsuspecting place he could ever imagine. First on-scene where an Amtrak train derailed just south of Seattle on December 18, 2017. Listen to the story of this amazing young man as he talks about what it was like to be

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Assumed Risk V. Created Risk (Episode 252)

1 Comment / Accountability, Attitude, Bravado, Complacency, Culture, Decision Making, Defiance, Ego, Experience, Fear, Habits, Human Behavior, Invincible, Judgment, Leadership, Line of Duty Death, Mayday, Mission, Near Miss, Risk, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio / Rich Gasaway

This episode is an interview with Dr. Burt Clark, discussing the notion of first responders who assume risk versus first responders who create risk. The discussion addresses a number of safety topics important to first responders. Length: 76 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are

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Top Ten Near-Miss Interviews (SAM 248)

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Anger, Assertiveness, Assumptions, Attention Management, Attitude, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Automation, Benchmarks, Biases, Bravado, Building Construction, Checklists, Close Call, Cognitive Memory, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Communications, Competency, Complacency, Confabulation, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Defiance, Denial, Disoriented, Distractions and Interruptions, Educational Products, Ego, Emotions, Equipment, Error Creep, Excited, Expectations, Experience, Explicit Knowledge, Fatigue, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Frustration, Gasaway Consulting Group, Goals, Gut Feeling, Habits, Hallucinations, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Hyper Vigilance, Line of Duty Death, SAMatters Radio / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, I recap the events surrounding our most downloaded near-miss interviews in the history of the show. Length: 33 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ 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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Pre-Arrival Lens, Task Fixation, Mission Myopia and Fear (Episode 246)

Leave a Comment / Communications, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Ego, Emotions, Experience, Fear, Human Factors, Intuition, Mental Models, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Mission, Mission Myopia, Perception Of Reality, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Sensory Conflict, Shared Mental Models, Stress, Task Fixation, Task Saturation, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, you get to sit in on a segment of a situational awareness program where Dr. Gasaway discusses four situational awareness barriers. Length: 33 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to

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Peer Pressure Can Impact Situational Awareness

2 Comments / Article, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Ego, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Leadership, Safety, Situational awareness, Stress, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

The social interaction between coworkers may not be on your mind as you think about situational awareness. But the fact is we are all influenced by our relationships with others. We have an inherent internal desire to be well-liked and respected. We also have a very strong internal drive to avoid embarrassment. These traits of

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Episode 234 | The Dirty Dozen – Killer Situational Awareness Barriers

Leave a Comment / Auditory exclusion, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Complacency, Confabulation, Confusion, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Expectations, Experience, Fear, Gut Feeling, Habits, Hallucinations, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Hyper Vigilance, Information overload, Intuition, Judgment, Long-Term Memory, Meta Awareness, Miscommunications, Mission, Mission Myopia, Multitasking, Muscle Memory, Overload, Overwhelm, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Pressure, Radios, Repetition, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Sensory Conflict, Shared Mental Models, Short Term Memory, Situational awareness, Size Up, Stress, Tacit Knowledge, Task Fixation, Tunnel Vision, Tunneled Senses, Under Confident, understaffing, Vigilance, Workload Management, Worksheets / Rich Gasaway

This episode discusses some of the most challenging barriers to situational awareness while working in high-risk, high-consequence environments. This is part 2 so if you missed part 1 – Episode 233 – be sure to check it out first and that will help you understand the challenges we are going to discuss here. Length: 36

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Episode 233 | The Process for Developing Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Auditory exclusion, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Complacency, Confabulation, Confusion, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Expectations, Experience, Fear, Gut Feeling, Habits, Hallucinations, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Hyper Vigilance, Information overload, Intuition, Judgment, Long-Term Memory, Meta Awareness, Miscommunications, Mission, Mission Myopia, Multitasking, Muscle Memory, Overload, Overwhelm, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Pressure, Radios, Repetition, Risk Assessment, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Sensory Conflict, Shared Mental Models, Short Term Memory, Situational awareness, Size Up, Stress, Tacit Knowledge, Task Fixation, Tunnel Vision, Tunneled Senses, Under Confident, Vigilance, Workload Management, Worksheets / Rich Gasaway

The episode discusses the process for developing and maintaining situational awareness. We will discuss the foundation, walls and roof of the SA development process. This is part 1 of a 2-part episode. Length: 36 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking

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Nine Dangerous Mindsets – Part 7: The Superman/Superwoman

Article, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Ego, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Leadership, Safety, Situational awareness / Rich Gasaway

Welcome to installment seven of the Nine Dangerous Mindsets series. While these mindsets may have many dangerous implications, my focus is to bring light to how they can impact situational awareness and team safety. I have been receiving some amazing feedback so far on this series. Readers are sharing that I have struck a chord,

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Episode 231 | Kevin LaChapelle Interview Part 1

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Building Construction, Close Call, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Fatigue, Fear, Habits, Mayday, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Mission, Personnel location, Pre Arrival Lens, Prediction, Progress Reports, Radios, Response Time Delays, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Stress, Teamwork, understaffing / Rich Gasaway

This episode is part 1 of a 2-part interview with Fire Chief Kevin LaChapelle from the Franklin, New Hampshire Fire Department sharing the details of mayday event that occurred in Franklin. Length: 60 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your

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