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Episode 106 | Sensory conflict can impact situational awareness

Leave a Comment / Cognitive Memory, Confusion, Disoriented, Emotions, Expectations, Lost Focus, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Pattern Matching, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Radios, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict, Size Up / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we will discuss what can happen when a person is experiencing sensory conflict and how this neurological phenomenon 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 […]

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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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The Routine Call

Leave a Comment / Article, Assumptions, Complacency, Denial, Hyper Vigilance, Over Confident, Perception, Prediction, understaffing, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

During a recent situational awareness program a participant was discussing something that went wrong at a routine call. As the story went, the crew had been to this address numerous times for the same (or similar) problem. Each time, the issue was resolved quickly and without incident. The call was, by his words, routine. So,

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Episode 99 | Distracted driving: Interview with Greg Yost

Leave a Comment / SAMatters Radio / Rich Gasaway

This episode interviews Greg Yost, an advocate for responder safety and a father who lost his daughter from an accident involving distracted driving. Length: 55 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making

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Resistance to Change

2 Comments / Article, Bravado / Rich Gasaway

Imagine for a moment that you’re part of a 4-person first-due crew responding on to an apartment fire. On the way to the call the dispatcher announces over the radio that a caller is reporting the fire to be on the first floor of a three-story apartment building. Your company officer tells you that on

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Mobile Data Computers and Situational Awareness

1 Comment / Article, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions / Rich Gasaway

I am seeing an increase in the use of mobile data computers as a tool used by incident commanders. Commanders are using computers to capture and manage information, aid in decision making and in some cases as a tool in the development of situational awareness . On the surface, it would appear that situational awareness

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2015 Year in Review

Leave a Comment / Article, Gasaway Consulting Group, Safety / Rich Gasaway

Last year i started offered a summary of my activities to advance the Situational Awareness Matters mission. I received a lot of positive comments and support from the information I shared so I thought I would carry on the tradition by posting this – 2015 year in review. The personal motivation I derive from this

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Episode 88 | Commanders in Turnout Gear

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This episode discusses whether incident commanders should wear turnout gear while commanding incidents. The answer may not be as simple as it appears. 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

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Episode 74 | Creating the Thinking Firefighter

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This episode is a recording of my presentation at the Executive Fire Officer Program Graduate Symposium, hosted on the Campus of the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Length: 30 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 72: The dispatcher’s role in forming first responder situational awareness

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Some of the least appreciated members of the emergency response team are the communications specialists (in some venues, termed dispatchers). How do I know this? First, I served as a communications specialist (my job title was dispatcher) early in my career and I was routinely subjected to criticism and ridicule from responders because the

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