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Episode 136 | Online Academy Q&A

Leave a Comment / Firefighter Situational Awareness, Neuroscience, Questions & Answers, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Training / Rich Gasaway

This special episode is dedicated to answering questions about the Situational Awareness Matters Online Academy. 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 Matters Online Academy. CLICK HERE for […]

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The Facilitated Debrief: A Lesson From Aviation

1 Comment / Article, Safety, Situational awareness / Rich Gasaway

One of the things I am thankful for in life (among many) is safe air travel. A lot of time, effort and money is spent to ensure flight crews develop and maintain strong situational awareness. The chances of getting killed in a commercial airline accident while traveling with one of the top 20 carriers is

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We Must Stop The Insanity: Part 4

4 Comments / Article, Decision Making, Safety, Situational awareness / Rich Gasaway

Welcome to the fourth and final article in the We Must Stop The Insanity situational awareness series. In case you missed the previous three articles (which I encourage you to go back and read) or if you need a refresher, indulge me as I do a little recap. In Part 1, I talked about flawed

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We Must Stop The Insanity: Part 3

3 Comments / Article, Safety, Situational awareness, Staffing, Training / Rich Gasaway

Welcome to the third article in the four-part We Must Stop The Insanity situational awareness series. In case you missed the previous two articles (which I encourage you to go back and read) or if you need a refresher, indulge me as I do a little recap. In Part 1, I talked about flawed size-ups.

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We Must Stop The Insanity: Part 1

14 Comments / Article, Repetition, Safety, Situational awareness, Training / Rich Gasaway

The training practices used in many communities are setting up emergency response personnel for failure and flawed situational awareness. The sad part is most don’t even realize they’re doing it. When casualties occur, so do investigations. The investigations result in recommendations for how to prevent future casualty events. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and

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Stop Judging to Improve Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Article, Safety, Situational awareness / Rich Gasaway

Oftentimes when I am talking with first responders about the role of situational awareness and casualty incidents, especially the ones that have recently occurred, they share with me their opinions and frustrations about the performance of the responders and the decisions made by command staff. If I have learned anything, it’s first responders are opinionated

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Completing the 360-Degree Size-Up

Leave a Comment / Article, Decision Making, Safety, Situational awareness, Size Up, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines / Rich Gasaway

Situational awareness starts with capturing clues and cues in your environment (perception) and then understanding what those clues and cues mean (comprehension). At a structure fire the process of capturing information should involve a complete 360-degree size-up of the scene. Many departments have policies that stipulate the completion of a 360-degree size up. Yet, for

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Episode 128 | Sleep inertia: An interview with Norfolk Fire Lieutenant Jarrod Sergi

Leave a Comment / Cognitive Memory, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Disoriented, Fatigue, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, I interview Norfolk Fire Lieutenant Jarrod Sergi as he discusses how sleep inertia impacted his awareness and decision making skills at a late-night fire. Length: 58 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision

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Episode 127 | Teaching responders how to speak up

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assertiveness, Attitude, Automatic Action, Bravado, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Denial, Ego, Emotions, Excited, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Frustration, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Insubordination, Judgment, Leadership, Miscommunications, Mission Myopia, Perception Of Reality, Preoccupation, Pressure, Risk, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Size Up, Task Fixation, Tunnel Vision, Under Confident / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss the challenges of teaching responders how to speak up when they think something is going wrong. As we will see, it goes way beyond telling them to speak up if they see something. Length: 39 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are

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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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