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Episode 136 | Online Academy Q&A

Leave a Comment / Firefighter Situational Awareness, Neuroscience, Questions & Answers, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Training / Rich Gasaway

This special episode is dedicated to answering questions about the Situational Awareness Matters Online Academy. 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 higher level, check out the Situational Awareness Matters Online Academy. CLICK HERE for […]

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Episode 135 | Meta-awareness

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In this episode, we discuss the importance of meta-awareness as a technique to help improve first responder safety. Length: 32 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

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Episode 134 | Assessing resources

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Expectations, Fear, Goals, Mayday and RIT, Mission, Pressure, Risk Assessment, SAMatters Radio, Stress, Teamwork, understaffing / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss the importance of setting operational strategy based on available resources and the impact of understaffing on situational awareness. Length: 25 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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Episode 133 | The Devil’s Advocate

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Cognitive Memory, Confusion, Decision Making, Disoriented, Distractions and Interruptions, Human Factors, Information overload, Multitasking, Neuroscience, Overload, Overwhelm, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Pressure, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Short Term Memory, Stress, Task Saturation, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss the role of the devil’s advocate on emergency scenes and how the advocate can help when there is a flawed perception of reality. 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

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Episode 132 | Online Academy Preview

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Communications, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Goals, Human Factors, Mission, Neuroscience, Risk Assessment, SAMatters Radio, Shared Mental Models, Situational awareness, Staffing, Teamwork, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

I am super excited to be able to share with you the features and enrollment options for the newly released Situational Awareness Matters Online Academy. Length: 22 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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Episode 131 | Best practices for managing mental workload

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Auditory exclusion, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Confusion, Decision Making, Disoriented, Distractions and Interruptions, Human Factors, Information overload, Multitasking, Neuroscience, Overload, Overwhelm, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, Pressure, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Short Term Memory, Stress, Task Saturation, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss five best practices for managing mental workload under stressful working conditions. Length: 26 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

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Episode 130 | Auditory Exclusion – Going deaf under stress

2 Comments / Auditory exclusion, Communications, Perception, SAMatters Radio, Tunneled Senses, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss the phenomenon known as auditory exclusion (going deaf under stress) and I explain how it happens and how it can impact situational awareness and decision making. Length: 35 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational

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Episode129 | Interview with Beaver Dam Fire & Rescue Chief Alan Mannel

Leave a Comment / Auditory exclusion, Communications, Complacency, Perception, SAMatters Radio, Time Distortion, Tunneled Senses, Vigilance / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, Beaver Dam Fire & Rescue Chief Alan Mannel shares the details of a shootout incident that occurred while he was serving as a police officer in Illinois. Length: 57 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational

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Episode 128 | Sleep inertia: An interview with Norfolk Fire Lieutenant Jarrod Sergi

Leave a Comment / Cognitive Memory, Confusion, Crew Resource Management, Decision Making, Disoriented, Fatigue, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, I interview Norfolk Fire Lieutenant Jarrod Sergi as he discusses how sleep inertia impacted his awareness and decision making skills at a late-night fire. Length: 58 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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Episode 127 | Teaching responders how to speak up

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assertiveness, Attitude, Automatic Action, Bravado, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Denial, Ego, Emotions, Excited, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Frustration, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Insubordination, Judgment, Leadership, Miscommunications, Mission Myopia, Perception Of Reality, Preoccupation, Pressure, Risk, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Size Up, Task Fixation, Tunnel Vision, Under Confident / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, we discuss the challenges of teaching responders how to speak up when they think something is going wrong. As we will see, it goes way beyond telling them to speak up if they see something. Length: 39 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are

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