The Gasaway Consulting Group sponsors the Emerging Leader Scholarship to provide an opportunity for a newer fire chief to attend the Volunteer & Combination Officers Section (VCOS) Symposium in the Sun. The scholarship provided a $1,500 stipend for the recipient to attend the four-day conference in Clearwater Beach, Florida. The 2o11 recipient was Fire Chief […]
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Links to free educational materials: Articles Outlines Handouts Checklists Reference Materials Additional free educational materials can be found on my speaking/consulting business website: www.RichGasaway.com. ________________________________________________________ Make this your finest hour – Keynote Address (.pdf) Firefighter Safety Mistakes & Best Practices Outline (.pdf) NOTE: The live recorded version of this presentation is available in the SAMatters.com store.
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Situational Awareness Matters! It’s our company name and it’s the founding principle of our teaching and consulting. Flawed situational awareness (and the barriers that flaw awareness) are consistently identified as contributing factors in first responder near-miss and casualty investigation reports. And yet, most first responders have received little (or no) training on how to develop
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Keynotes – Programs – Seminars – Workshops Powerful, results-oriented, high-impact, experience-based safety and leadership programs using interactive, adult learning techniques. For 25 years Dr. Richard Gasaway has been delivering content rich programs for first responders, business leaders and industral workers ranging in size from 10 to 5,000 throughout the United States, Canada, England, Hong Kong
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Welcome to Situational Awareness Matters! Whether you got here from a redirect from my existing website (www.RichGasaway.com) or you found this site through a web search or a link from another site, welcome. I’m glad you’re here. This is SA Matters. The “SA” is the acronym for Situational Awareness and in the context of the
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Training for Failure: Why we must change the way we train. Program Length: 2 to 3 hours Appropriate for: First Responders (Fire, Police, EMS) Supervisors Trainers Training Program Managers Safety Professionals Program Description When people do seemingly insane things on the job site there is never a shortage of peers waiting to pass judgment and
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What is situational awareness and why does it matter? Program length: 1 to 4 hours Appropriate for: First responders Industrial workers Safety professionals Utility workers Medical providers Transportation workers Military personnel Program Description Most workers know, intuitively, that strong situational awareness is an important aspect of safety. However, many do not understand what situational awareness is,
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Situational Awareness Matters! Volume 1 Dr. Richard B. Gasaway, EFO, CFO Fire Chief (ret.) Print Book 267 pages ISBN-13: 978-1-939571-08-3 Publisher: Gasaway Consulting Group, LLC $39.99 Flawed situational awareness is a leading contributing factor to first responder near-miss and casualty events. Yet, sadly, most first responders know very little about situational awareness – what it
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Training for Failure: Understanding why some first responder training must change Created and presented by: Dr. Richard B. Gasaway, EFO, CFO Fire Chief (ret.) Format: DVD Length: 137 minutes $199.99 When first responders do seemingly insane things at emergency scenes there is never a shortage of peers waiting to pass judgment and to criticize. It
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