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Episode 182 | Colorado Springs FD Interview – Part 2

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Automatic Action, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Competency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Expectations, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Insubordination, Judgment, Leadership, Mayday and RIT, Risk Assessment, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

This episode is part 2 of an interview with three members of the Colorado Springs Fire Department discussing recruit training, using science to teach firefighting and more. Length: 50 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk decision making to […]

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Competing Goals Can Impact Situational Awareness

1 Comment / Article, Automatic Action, Decision Making, Goals, Habits, Mission, Situational awareness, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

Arguably,to accomplish a mission, it would be very beneficial to have a shared set of goals that everyone understands and everyone is working on together in a unified way to accomplish. Shared goals can contribute to shared situational awareness – a common understanding of what is happening and what the plan of action entails

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Episode 181 | Colorado Springs FD Interview – Part 1

This episode is part 1 of an interview with three members of the Colorado Springs Fire Department discussing recruit training, using science to teach firefighting and more. Length: 55 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen

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Episode 179 | Coordinated Actions

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Automatic Action, Command Presence, Communications, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Independent Goal Setting - Freelancing, Leadership, Progress Reports, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Staffing, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork, Training / Rich Gasaway

This episode explores how coordinated actions can improve situational awareness. Length: 29 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, check out the Situational Awareness Matters Online Academy. CLICK HERE for details, enrollment

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Chatty TSA Agents

1 Comment / Accountability, Article, Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Automatic Action, Decision Making, Distractions and Interruptions, Experience, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Information overload, Interruptions, Multitasking / Rich Gasaway

It is possible that while you are attempting to pay attention to something, you can be drawn off your task by distractions or interruptions to your workload. A distraction is something that pulls your attention away by accident (like a reflex look in the direction of a loud noise). An interruption is something that pulls

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Episode 167 | Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 3

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Confabulation, Confusion, Decision Making, Disoriented, Expectations, Human Behavior, Judgment, Mental Models, Neuroscience, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict / Rich Gasaway

Albert Einstein is credited with saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.” This is Part 3 of a 5-part series that explores situational awareness insanity. Length: 30 minutes Click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness

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Episode 166 | Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 2

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Decision Making, Expectations, Judgment, Mental Models, Mission, Perception, Prediction, Pressure, SAMatters Radio / Rich Gasaway

Albert Einstein is credited with saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.” This is Part 2 of a 5-part series that explores situational awareness insanity. Length: 25 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness

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Episode 165 | Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 1

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Cognitive Memory, Decision Making, Expectations, Habits, Human Factors, Judgment, Mental Models, Mission, Muscle Memory, Neuroscience, Perception, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Tacit Knowledge, Training / Rich Gasaway

Albert Einstein is credited with saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.” This is Part 1 of a 5-part series that explores situational awareness insanity. Length: 26 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and high-risk

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Episode 164 | Predicting the future

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Automatic Action, Benchmarks, Decision Making, Expectations, Judgment, Mental Models, Mission, Perception, Prediction, SAMatters Radio / Rich Gasaway

One of the most challenging parts of situational awareness development is making an accurate prediction about what is going to happen in the future. This is one of the most often overlooked components of situational awareness development and the outcome can be catastrophic. Length: 30 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________

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Episode 149 | Mind Drift

Leave a Comment / Automatic Action, Confusion, Experience, Habits, Lost Focus, Mindfulness, Muscle Memory, SAMatters Radio, Sensory Conflict / Rich Gasaway

In the episode we discuss how your mind can drift out of consciousness and the impact it can have on your situational awareness if it does. Length: 27 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

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