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Episode 96 | Administrative workload can impact situational awareness

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This episode explores how a heavy administrative workload can impact situational awareness while you are working on emergency scenes. Length: 49 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 95 | Peer pressure can impact situational awareness

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This episode explores our basic human desire to be liked and respected. Not only do we want to be liked, but we also have a very strong internal drive to avoid embarrassment. These traits of human behavior can result in peer pressure that can, in turn, impact your situational awareness.

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Episode 94 | Information Overload

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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,

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Episode 93 | On being aggressive

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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

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Episode 92 | Five situational awareness lessons from a LODD report

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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

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Episode 91 | Creatures of habit

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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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Episode 90 | The myth of multitasking

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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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Episode 89 | Understaffing can impact situational awareness

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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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Episode 88 | Commanders in Turnout Gear

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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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Episode 87 | The role imagination plays in developing situational awareness

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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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