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Situational Awareness in Hoarder Homes
I want to take this opportunity to introduce the Situational Awareness Matters community of readers to an associate and good friend of mine, Firefighter-Paramedic Ryan Pennington with the Charleston (WV) Fire Department. Ryan has been conducting extensive research on the … Continue reading
Posted in building construction, Decision Making, firefighter situational awareness, Human Behavior, human factors, Safety, Situational awareness, size-up, Stress
Tagged decision making, firefighter safety, firefighter situational awareness, fireground command, fireground command situational awareness, hoarded environments, hoarder homes, hoarders, hoarding, trash homes
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Healing and growing from tragedy
I had an opportunity today to present along side Asheville Fire Chief Scott Burnette at the North Carolina Society of Fire Rescue Instructors Conference. This opportunity came as a result of another wonderful opportunity that Chief Burnette extended to me … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, firefighter situational awareness, Leadership, Mayday and RIT, Safety, Situational awareness, Situational Readiness, Training
Tagged 445 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville Fire Department, Captain Jeff Bowen, decision making, Facilitated Debriefing, Fire Chief Scott Burnette, Firefighter lessons learned, Firefighter Line of Duty Death, firefighter safety, firefighter situational awareness, fireground command, fireground command situational awareness
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Another False Alarm: A Tale of Complacency
Complacency is a big deal for first responders because it impacts your situational awareness on multiple levels. I would like to give every responder the benefit of the doubt that if or when they have found him or herself being … Continue reading
Posted in Complacency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, firefighter situational awareness, Human Behavior, human factors, Incompetence, Safety, Situational awareness
Tagged complacency, complacent mindset, decision making, fire alarm response, fire chief, firefighter, fireground command, fireground command situational awareness, fireground safety, incident awareness
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Radio Discipline
A frequent contributing factor in firefighter casualty incidents is too much radio traffic. This can have a significant impact on first responder situational awareness because it becomes near impossible to take in, process, comprehend and remember the volumes of information … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Auditory exclusion, Communications, Culture, Distractions and Interruptions, firefighter situational awareness, Human Behavior, Mayday and RIT, Safety, Situational awareness
Tagged communications, decision making, fire chief, firefighter, fireground command, fireground command situational awareness, fireground safety, incident awareness, radio discipline, radio procedures
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Multiple Awarenesses
The mission of this website and my personal passion for situational awareness is to help first responders see the bad things coming in time to change the outcome. Consistent with that mission, I try to help responders understand how various … Continue reading
Posted in Attention Management, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, firefighter situational awareness, Human Behavior, human factors, Safety, Situational awareness
Tagged decision making, fire chief, firefighter, fireground command, fireground command situational awareness, fireground safety, incident awareness, personal awareness, situational awareness, team awareness
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Trained to Fail
There are probably few things I say in a classroom that raises the ire of instructors more than “You’re training your members to fail.” I understand why they wouldn’t want to hear that. No instructor wants a member to fail. … Continue reading
Posted in Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, firefighter situational awareness, Human Behavior, human factors, Neuroscience, Repetition, Safety, Simulation, Situational awareness, Teamwork, Training
Tagged decision making, fire department training, firefighter casualties, firefighter injuries, firefighter safety, firefighter situational awareness, firefighter training, fireground command, fireground command situational awareness, trained to fail, training, training for failure
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The irrational obsession with loss
There is a growing body of research revealing that many human’s have an irrational obsession with loss. Or, perhaps more accurately, an irrational obsession with AVOIDING loss. This phenomenon is something I have seen played out in my evaluation of … Continue reading
Posted in Complacency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Ego and Self-Esteem, Fear, firefighter situational awareness, Leadership, Mayday and RIT, Safety, Situational awareness, Stress
Tagged decision making, firefighter safety, firefighter situational awareness, fireground command, fireground command situational awareness, groupthink, loss aversion, obsession with loss
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