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Episode 167 | Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 3

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Confabulation, Confusion, Decision Making, Disoriented, Expectations, Human Behavior, Judgment, Mental Models, Neuroscience, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict / Rich Gasaway

Albert Einstein is credited with saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.” This is Part 3 of a 5-part series that explores situational awareness insanity. Length: 30 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness […]

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Episode 165 | Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 1

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Cognitive Memory, Decision Making, Expectations, Habits, Human Factors, Judgment, Mental Models, Mission, Muscle Memory, Neuroscience, Perception, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Tacit Knowledge, Training / Rich Gasaway

Albert Einstein is credited with saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.” This is Part 1 of a 5-part series that explores situational awareness insanity. Length: 26 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk

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Meta Awareness

10 Comments / Article, Attention Management, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Leadership, Meta Awareness, Neuroscience, Safety, Situational awareness, Size Up, Weather / Rich Gasaway

Developing and maintaining situational awareness at an emergency scene can be a very challenging task. Scenes are often stressful, complex, time-compressed, and complicated with rapidly-changing conditions. Responders have lots of information to process and many tasks to perform. And, sadly, situational awareness isn’t always the forefront on their minds. Under such conditions, meta awareness

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Episode 156 | Third Anniversary Celebration

1 Comment / Close Call, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Gasaway Consulting Group, Human Factors, Judgment, Leadership, Line of Duty Death, Neuroscience, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness / Rich Gasaway

This episode marks the third anniversary of the SAMatters Radio Podcast Show. Dr. Gasaway takes the listeners for a walk down memory lane about how the SAMatters mission got started. Length: 42 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk

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Explanations for Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 3

Leave a Comment / Article, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Communications, Confabulation, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Information overload, Neuroscience, Safety, Situational awareness, Size Up, Stress, Tacit Knowledge, Task Saturation, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

This series is focused on the seemingly insane things that first responders do while operating in high-stress, high-consequence environments. Oftentimes, those trying to make sense of these behaviors are quick to judge the participants, saying things like: “How could they be so stupid?” or “What were they thinking?” or perhaps the worst one of all

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Episode 145 | Task Saturation

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Emotions, Human Factors, Information overload, Multitasking, Neuroscience, Overload, Perception, Repetition, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Task Saturation / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss the challenges when first responders become task saturated. Length: 26 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

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Episode144 | Pre-Arrival Lens

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Biases, Communications, Expectations, Neuroscience, Perception, Pre Arrival Lens, Prediction, Radios, SAMatters Radio / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss the pre-arrival lens that responders use to help form situational awareness. Length: 24 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

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Episode 141 | Confabulation

Leave a Comment / Cognitive Memory, Confabulation, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Human Factors, Information overload, Miscommunications, Neuroscience, Overload, Perception Of Reality, Progress Reports, SAMatters Radio, Stress / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we explore how the brain confabulates – or makes up its own reality. In the absence of facts, the brain can start to invent or create its own reality. This can be dangerous on emergency scenes. Length: 22 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are

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Episode 139 | Building expert knowledge

Leave a Comment / Cognitive Memory, Competency, Experience, Long-Term Memory, Muscle Memory, Neuroscience, SAMatters Radio, Training / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss ideas for how to build expert knowledge in first responders, especially during a time when the number of structure fires is declining. Length: 22 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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Two Key Ways to Improve Learning and Recall

6 Comments / Article, Neuroscience, Safety, Situational awareness, Training / Rich Gasaway

Is there a role for humor while training first responders on critical, life-saving, skills?[tweet this] The flight attendant begins dolling out the obligatory, in fact, federally mandated, pre-flight safety instructions. If you’re a frequent flyer, your situational awareness is probably pretty low. You know the routine and it’s boring. If you’re an infrequent flyer, the

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