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Episode 182 | Colorado Springs FD Interview – Part 2

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Automatic Action, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Competency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Expectations, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Insubordination, Judgment, Leadership, Mayday and RIT, Risk Assessment, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

This episode is part 2 of an interview with three members of the Colorado Springs Fire Department discussing recruit training, using science to teach firefighting and more. Length: 50 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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Competing Goals Can Impact Situational Awareness

1 Comment / Article, Automatic Action, Decision Making, Goals, Habits, Mission, Situational awareness, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

Arguably,to accomplish a mission, it would be very beneficial to have a shared set of goals that everyone understands and everyone is working on together in a unified way to accomplish. Shared goals can contribute to shared situational awareness – a common understanding of what is happening and what the plan of action entails

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Episode 181 | Colorado Springs FD Interview – Part 1

This episode is part 1 of an interview with three members of the Colorado Springs Fire Department discussing recruit training, using science to teach firefighting and more. Length: 55 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen

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Episode 179 | Coordinated Actions

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Automatic Action, Command Presence, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Leadership, Progress Reports, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork, Training / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores how coordinated actions can improve situational awareness. Length: 29 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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Buildings are Disposable

7 Comments / Accountability, Article, Building Construction, Communications, Complacency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Ego, Emotions, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Leadership, Mayday and RIT, Risk Assessment, Safety, Situational awareness, Size Up, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

Buildings are disposable. People are not! This guest editorial contribution is provided by Chief John Buckman III, Director of the Indiana State Fire Training and Certification System. Chief Buckman posted this piece on Facebook and, with his permission, it is being reposted here. The message is short and powerful.

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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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Duty to Die Syndrome

8 Comments / Accountability, Article, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Ego, Emotions, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Safety, Situational awareness, Situational Readiness, Teamwork, Training / Rich Gasaway

I recently sent out a message across my social media networks (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn) about bravado being a barrier to situational awareness. The message, in case you missed it, read: Bravado: The purposeful ignorance of critical signs of danger coupled with a sense of invincibility. A barrier to situational awareness. First responders sometimes confuse

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Episode 173 | Bravado

Leave a Comment / Attitude, Bravado, Culture, Decision Making, Defiance, Emotions, Expectations, Fear, Human Behavior, Invincible, Judgment, Line of Duty Death, Optimism, Preoccupation, Risk, SAMatters Radio, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores the challenges of how bravado can impact situational awareness. 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 details,

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Aggressiveness and Situational Awareness

7 Comments / Article, Building Construction, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Emotions, Human Behavior, Safety, Situational awareness, Size Up, Staffing, Stress, Teamwork, Training / Rich Gasaway

I was recently contacted by email from a Situational Awareness Matters member asking if aggressiveness and safety can co-exist at an emergency scene. My answer was “of course they can.” The two actions, being safe and being aggressive are not mutually exclusive. To think they are is to believe responders must sacrifice safety when they

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Administrative chiefs and emergency responses

9 Comments / Accountability, Article, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Ego, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Incompetence, Safety, Situational awareness, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

I recently received an email from a firefighter asking for my opinion as to whether or not the administrative chief officers in his department should respond to reported structure fires. My initial response was: “Well, Duh! Yes!” But then I got to thinking about it more. How and when administrative chief officers respond to fires

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