How Flawed Expectations Can Impact Situational Awareness
The development of situational awareness happens on a three-tiered continuum. It begins with perceiving your environment. Then, what is perceived must be …
Independent Actions Can Impact Team Situational Awareness
For some public safety agencies it is standard practice for the first arriving personnel (or crews of personnel) to deploy independently. Oftentimes these …
Herd mentality can impact situational awareness
I was recently reading some research that mentioned the cognitive bias known as herd mentality (or herd behavior). Stated basically, individuals will group and …
How We Decide … Anything
How you decide to do something is a complex process that involves multiple brain regions. Are decisions made with the rational brain or the intuitive brain? …
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard awards contract to Gasaway Consulting Group to conduct safety evaluation and training
Gasaway Consulting Group, LLC, the parent of company of Situational Awareness Matters has been awarded a contract to conduct a situational awareness site …
Eagle Materials awards contract to Gasaway Consulting Group to conduct training for regional & corporate safety managers
Gasaway Consulting Group, LLC, the parent of company of Situational Awareness Matters has been selected to provide situational awareness training to the …
Expectations can Impact Situational Awareness
Towering Inferno… Backdraft… Ladder 49… Emergency… Adam 12… Dragnet… Rescue Me… Chicago Fire… Hawaii Five O …
I Woke Up Today With Nothing To Do!
If you have visited SAMatters before, you know the mission of the site is to help first responders improve situational awareness by “Helping you see the …
Helmet Cams and Risky Behaviors
I recently fielded a question from a Situational Awareness Matters member on the use of helmet cameras and the impact it might have on situational awareness. …
Giving L.I.P. to R.I.T.
I would like to share the results of a series of informal polls I have been conducting over the past several years. I have been conducting these surveys …