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Episode 226 | New Carlisle FD LODD Review

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attention Management, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Building Construction, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Communications, Complacency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Error Creep, Expectations, Experience, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Information overload, Interruptions, Judgment, Lost Focus, Mayday, Mayday and RIT, Mindfulness, Miscommunications, Mission, Mission Myopia, Muscle Memory, Overwhelm, Perception Of Reality, Personnel location, Repetition, Risk, Risk Assessment, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Situational awareness, Size Up, Stress, Teamwork, Tunnel Vision, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

This episode is a review of the lessons learned from the August 5, 2014 structure fire incident that killed Assistant Fire Chief Jamie Middlebrook. Length: 36 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 […]

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Episode 203 | Normalization of Deviance

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attitude, Automatic Action, Close Call, Complacency, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Defiance, Denial, Error Creep, Expectations, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Incompetence, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Invincible, Judgment, Line of Duty Death, Mindfulness, Mission, Mission Myopia, Near Miss, Optimism, Over Confident, Perception Of Reality, Risk, Risk Assessment, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Stress, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

When we are operating under conditions of stress and consequence, coupled with changing conditions and time compression, we can feel a sense of urgency and this can cause us to want to take a shortcut from safety best practices. Length: 29 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen __________________________________________________

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Episode 188 | When the puzzle pieces don’t fit

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attention Management, Automatic Action, Command Presence, Complacency, Confusion, Decision Making, Denial, Expectations, Gut Feeling, Illness, Intuition, Meta Awareness, Mission Myopia, Near Miss, Personnel location, Pre Arrival Lens, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Task Fixation, Teamwork, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

This episode discusses the confusion that can occur when the information you gather during size-up do not fit your expectations of what you thought you were going to see or hear. Length: 35 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness

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Episode 124 | Facilitated Debriefings

Leave a Comment / Close Call, Communications, Equipment, Habits, Human Error, Leadership, Near Miss, Personal Protective Equipment, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

In this episode we look at how facilitated debriefings used in aviation safety to improve air travel can be applied to emergency services to improve responder safety. Length: 33 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and

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Episode 120 | Interview with Instructor John Dixon

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attitude, Automatic Action, Biases, Bravado, Complacency, Confusion, Culture, Defiance, Denial, Ego, Error Creep, Habits, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Incompetence, Invincible, Judgment, Leadership, Over Confident, Pressure, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Under Confident / Rich Gasaway

In this episode I sat down for an interview with Instructor John Dixon to discuss his passion topic – the normalization of deviance. Length: 63 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

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Time to Task Completion is Critical

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Article, Checklists, Command Presence, Competency, Decision Making, Expectations, Experience, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Factors, Information overload, Intuition, Leadership, Mission, Perception, Prediction, Risk Assessment, Routines, Safety, Situational awareness, Time Distortion / Rich Gasaway

Your highest level of situational awareness is formed when you are able to make accurate predictions about future events. In science we call this projection and it simply means you are able to predict, or project, the future events. This is accomplished through mental models you develop that are founded in your training and experience.

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Five Tough Questions

3 Comments / Accountability, Article, Bravado, Ego, Experience, Human Behavior, Miscommunications, Routines, Training / Rich Gasaway

I have witnessed a rather disturbing trend in my situational awareness classes over the past year. I have added a video where firefighters are on a roof that is clearly self-venting. The video then leads us into discussions on assumed risk versus created risk and changing outcomes versus getting in the way of outcomes that

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