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Traits of High Reliability Organizations (Episode 275)

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 /

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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Positive & Negative Clues and Cues (Episode 274)

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Confusion, Decision Making, Expectations, Human Behavior, Judgment, Mindfulness, Pattern Matching, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict, Shared Mental Models, Tacit Knowledge, Vigilance /

This episode discusses how positive and negative clues and cues influence the development of situational awareness. Length: 22 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

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A Tale of Complacency (Episode 273)

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attention Management, Attitude, Command Presence, Competency, Complacency, Culture, Decision Making, Denial, Expectations, Habits, Incompetence, Invincible, Mindfulness, Mission, Optimism, Over Confident, Perception Of Reality, Preoccupation, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Staffing, Training, Vigilance /

This episode discusses how complacency can creep into our work, impact vigilance and flaw situational awareness. Length: 23 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

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Radio Discipline (Episode 272)

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Distractions and Interruptions, Equipment, Human Behavior, Information overload, Miscommunications, Overload, Progress Reports, Radios, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Sensory Conflict, Shared Mental Models, Short Term Memory, Size Up, Tunneled Senses /

  This episode discusses the importance of radio discipline in developing and maintaining situational awareness. Length: 19 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

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What is SA and Why Does it Matter? (Episode 271)

Leave a Comment / Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Mindfulness, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Risk, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Vigilance /

This episode discusses what situational awareness is and why it is so important in the workplace. Length: 30 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

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Pre-Conception (Episode 270)

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Biases, Cognitive Memory, Confabulation, Confusion, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Expectations, Goals, Hallucinations, Human Behavior, Judgment, Mission, Neuroscience, Pattern Matching, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Size Up /

This episode discusses how pre-conception can impact situational awareness. Length: 19 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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Time Distortion: A Barrier to Situational Awareness (Episode 269)

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attention Management, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Confusion, Denial, Disoriented, Excited, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Mental Models, Mindfulness, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Progress Reports, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Short Term Memory, Stress, Time Distortion /

This episode discusses the connection between time distortion and situational awareness. Length: 20 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

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Firefighter Through the Floor – The Matt Marlow Story (Episode 266)

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Attention Management, Attitude, Automatic Action, Close Call, Communications, Complacency, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Expectations, Lost Focus, Mission Myopia, Over Confident, Pre Arrival Lens, Response Time Delays, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Vigilance /

In this interview, Matt Marlow shares how his late arrival on a structure fire led to a complacent mindset and caused him to fall through the floor at a residential structure fire. Length: 78 minutes   Click the YouTube icon to watch the full VIDEO     __________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding

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Situational Awareness on the Roadway

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There are an untold number of incidents in which responders have been struck by vehicles while working on roadway incidents. The roadway is one of the more dangerous work environments for emergency responders to operate in because conditions can go from being totally benign to total chaos in just a matter of seconds.  

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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 /

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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