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Episode 199 | Chesterfield County Interview – Part 2

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 / Rich Gasaway

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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Episode197 | Interview with Jason Bonney – Part 2

Leave a Comment / Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Factors, Intuition, Judgment, Leadership, Neuroscience, Perception, Prediction, Risk Assessment, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Situational awareness, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

This episode is part two of a two-part interview with Assistant Chief Jason Bonney from the Central Jackson Fire Protection District. Length: 53 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

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Episode 196 | Interview with Jason Bonney – Part 1

This episode is part one of a two-part interview with Assistant Chief Jason Bonney from the Central Jackson Fire Protection District. Length: 53 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

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Episode 195 | Crisis Response Journal Interview – Part 2

This episode is part two of an interview with Christo Motz, a board member for the Crisis Response Journal. Length: 61 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen to the full episode __________________________________________________ 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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Episode 193 | Herd Mentality

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assertiveness, Attitude, Automatic Action, Biases, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Fear, Goals, Human Behavior, Insubordination, Judgment, Leadership, Mission, Perception, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

In this episode we discuss the cognitive bias known as herd mentality (or herd behavior). Length: 31 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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Episode 177 | Time to Task Completion

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Benchmarks, Decision Making, Experience, Leadership, Mental Models, Mission, Prediction, Preoccupation, Risk Assessment, SAMatters Radio, Teamwork, Time Distortion / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores how knowing the time to task completion can aid in the development of situational awareness. Length: 30 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

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Episode 176 | Imagination

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Cognitive Memory, Decision Making, Expectations, Judgment, Mindfulness, Prediction, SAMatters Radio / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores the role that imagination plays in the formation of situational awareness. Length: 35 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

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Episode 172 | Confirmation Bias

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Biases, Cognitive Memory, Confabulation, Decision Making, Expectations, Gut Feeling, Intuition, Judgment, Long-Term Memory, Pattern Matching, Perception, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Tacit Knowledge / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores the challenges of how confirmation bias can impact situational awareness. Length: 28 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 168 | Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 4

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Benchmarks, Decision Making, Expectations, Judgment, Mental Models, Mission Myopia, Perception, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Task Fixation, Tunnel Vision / 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 4 of a 5-part series that explores situational awareness insanity. Length: 23 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness

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