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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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Episode 147 | The Need for Skill Rehearsal

Leave a Comment / Command Presence, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Goals, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Miscommunications, Mission, Mission Myopia, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Task Fixation, Task Saturation, Teamwork, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

This episode discusses the importance of rehearsal as a means to strengthen team situational awareness. Length: 38 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 138 | Nine considerations when evaluating incident command software.

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Automation, Command Support, Communications, Decision Making, Equipment, Information overload, Miscommunications, Overload, Preoccupation, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Shared Mental Models, Task Fixation, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss 9 things you should consider when evaluating your purchase of incident command software. 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

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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 115 | Vehicle Fire Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Close Call, Complacency, Culture, Decision Making, Expectations, Habits, Human Error, Judgment, Near Miss, Over Confident, Personal Protective Equipment, Personnel location, Prediction, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Task Fixation / Rich Gasaway

In this episode we explore the importance of developing and maintain situational awareness while operating on the scenes of vehicle fires. Length: 34 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 113 | Six Red Flags for Danger

Leave a Comment / Close Call, Communications, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Emotions, Fear, Goals, Gut Feeling, Intuition, Mayday, Near Miss, Personnel location, Pressure, Risk, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Size Up, Task Fixation / Rich Gasaway

In this episode we discuss six red flags for danger that may get overlooked or ignored at a structure fire. 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,

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Episode 108 | Working Command and Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Command Location, Command Presence, Command Support, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Judgment, Meta Awareness, Mission, Multitasking, Personnel location, Prediction, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Task Fixation, Task Saturation, Teamwork, Training, understaffing, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores how situational awareness may be impacted when the first arriving officer establishes a “working command.” Length: 32 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

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