This episode explores the capacity of the human brain to process sensory stimuli into short-term memory and the impact it can have on situational awareness. Length: 37 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, […]
Episode 94 | Information Overload Read More »
Can aggressiveness and safety co-exist at an emergency scene? This episode explores why those two actions – being safe and being aggressive – are not mutually exclusive activities. Length: 33 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making
Episode 93 | On being aggressive Read More »
On June 2, 2011, the San Francisco Fire Department suffered the tragic loss of 2 firefighters at 133 Berkeley Way. The episode shares some valuable situational awareness lessons from this tragic incident. Length: 36 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding
Episode 92 | Five situational awareness lessons from a LODD report Read More »
Perhaps you’ve heard it said that we are creatures of habit. The more we do something over and over again, the more likely that behavior will be turned into a habit. This episode explores how we create habits. Length: 26 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen
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This episode explores the challenges responders face while operating in dynamically changing conditions that require sharing attention to multiple, concurrent activities – a.k.a., multitasking. Length: 34 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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Understaffing can have a big impact on first responder safety. We all know that. But it can also have a huge impact on first responder situational awareness. This episode explores how understaffing can impact awareness. Length: 21 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking
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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
2015 Year in Review Read More »
It is the goal of Situational Awareness Matters to post a new podcast episode every Tuesday and a new blog article every Friday. This goal was achieved in 2015. Thus, there were 52 podcast episodes and 52 blog articles posted. Listed below are the topics and links to the top 10 most popular blog articles
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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This episode discusses the role that imagination plays in forming and maintaining situational awareness. Being able to predict future events, before they happen, is critical to first responder safety and imagination plans a key role in this process. Length: 22 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are
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