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3 Decision Choices for the First Arriving Officer
Recently in a Flawed Situational Awareness class we were discussing how situational awareness serves as the foundation for good decision making. Granted, a person does

Episode 96 | Administrative workload can impact situational awareness
This episode explores how a heavy administrative workload can impact situational awareness while you are working on emergency scenes.

19 Ways Communications Barriers Can Impact Situational Awareness
If you are a student of near-miss and casualty reports then you know, without a doubt, that flawed communications is a major contributing factor when

Episode 95 | Peer pressure can impact situational awareness
This episode explores our basic human desire to be liked and respected. Not only do we want to be liked,

Mobile Data Computers and Situational Awareness
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

Episode 94 | Information Overload
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.