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Using the Simulation Environment to Improve Situational Awareness

11 Comments / Article, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Information overload, Mental Models, Neuroscience, Safety, Simulation, Situational awareness, Stress, Technology, Training, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

Many first responder training programs use simulation in the development of decision-making competencies. Simulation exercises help develop skills in setting strategy and tactics, in applying policies and procedures and in developing critical thinking skills. How can simulations be used in the development of situational awareness skills? The answer lies, in part, in understanding what situational […]

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Drone Responders Interview with Charles Werner (Episode 281)

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Attention Management, Automation, Command Location, Command Support, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Equipment, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Information overload, Judgment, Mindfulness, Multitasking, Personnel location, Pre Arrival Lens, Progress Reports, Risk, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Size Up, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Stress, Task Fixation, Technology, Training / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, Fire Chief (ret.) Charles Werner discusses how drone technology can be used to enhance first responder situational awareness and improve access to critical decision making information. Length: 61 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and

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Situational Awareness and Decision Making Tips for Training

1 Comment / Accountability, Article, Attention Management, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Emotions, Fatigue, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Information overload, Intuition, Multitasking, Questions & Answers, Risk Assessment, Safety, Simulation, Size Up, Teamwork, Technology, Training / Rich Gasaway

I recently received an email from a SAMatters community member asking for tips to improve size-up, situational awareness and decision making while training in a flashover simulator. It was a great question (thank you Captain Scott Byers from the Tracy Fire Department)! I offered Scott a number of ideas and thought it would be good

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High Reliability Organization Processes (Episode 276)

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assertiveness, Assumptions, Attention Management, Attitude, Automation, Benchmarks, Checklists, Communications, Competency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Expectations, Goals, Human Error, Judgment, Leadership, Mindfulness, Mission, Preoccupation, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork, Technology, Training, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores the processes used by high reliability organizations. Length: 21 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 making to a higher level, check out the Situational Awareness Matters Online Academy. CLICK HERE for details,

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Traits of High Reliability Organizations (Episode 275)

This episode explores the traits of high reliability organizations Length: 25 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 making to a higher level, check out the Situational Awareness Matters Online Academy. CLICK HERE for details, enrollment

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Virtual Reality Simulations – The Paul Speight Interview. (Episode 263)

Leave a Comment / Automation, Cognitive Memory, Competency, Culture, Decision Making, Equipment, Expectations, Explicit Knowledge, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Mental Models, Muscle Memory, Neuroscience, Pattern Matching, Perception Of Reality, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Simulation, Stress, Tacit Knowledge, Technology, Training / Rich Gasaway

During this interview, Paul Speight from the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service in the United Kingdom shares how his department is developing virtual reality simulations to train first responders. Length: 72 minutes Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness

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Nine considerations when evaluating incident command software

1 Comment / Article, Assumptions, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Expectations, Experience, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Frustration, Information overload, Interruptions, Safety, Technology / Rich Gasaway

As you attend conferences that have vendor display areas, pay attention to how many incident management software vendors claim to have programs that can “develop situational awareness” in first responders. This claim is often founded on the belief that as the software is able to capture, assemble and display layers and layers of data that,

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Technology Can Help AND Hurt Situational Awareness

25 Comments / Article, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Information overload, Mental Models, Safety, Situational awareness, Technology, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

You don’t have to look far and wide to locate clever marketing campaigns that make outrageous claims to improve our lives or solve our problems. I’ve been noticing this trend now as it relates to products claiming they “create” situational awareness. I was recently at a conference and had an opportunity to have a discussion

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Episode 210 | Observations and lessons from FDIC

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Anger, Assumptions, Attitude, Biases, Bravado, Close Call, Communications, Culture, Decision Making, Defiance, Denial, Ego, Emotions, Equipment, Expectations, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Gasaway Consulting Group, Human Factors, Judgment, Leadership, Mayday, Mayday and RIT, Neuroscience, Personal Protective Equipment, Progress Reports, Questions & Answers, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Size Up, Stress, Teamwork, Technology, Training / Rich Gasaway

This episode shares observations and lessons learned from the 2018 International Fire Department Instructors Conference. Length: 64 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

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Episode 206 | Competing Goals

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Goals, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Miscommunications, Mission, Progress Reports, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Teamwork, Technology, Time Distortion, Training, Tunnel Vision, Tunneled Senses, Under Confident, understaffing, Vigilance, Weather, Workload Management, Worksheets / Rich Gasaway

This episode examines how competing goals can impact situational awareness. 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.

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