Gasaway Consulting Group, LLC, the parent of company of Situational Awareness Matters has secured a year-long contract to train 600+ oil refinery operators at Syncrude Canada’s Fort McMurray Operations. The training will take place in 2018 and 2019 and is part of a four-pronged approach to improve operator safety during Periods of High Vulnerability that […]
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Gasaway Consulting Group, LLC, the parent of company of Situational Awareness Matters has been selected to conduct a situational awareness site evaluation and training for Georgia Pacific. The assessment and training will be completed in 2018. The focus will be to help improve situational awareness and decision making for front-line production staff and supervisors. “We
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When we are operating under conditions of stress and consequence, coupled with changing conditions and time compression, we can feel a sense of urgency and this can cause us to want to take a shortcut from safety best practices. Length: 27 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen __________________________________________________ If you
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https://www.samatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Virtual-Demo-Reel-First-Responders-Compressed.mp4 When it comes to training your members virtually, we’ve got you covered! Your members can participate in virtual training two different ways. OPTION 1 Live Training – Presented Virtually(Using Zoom or your platform) Includes live chat and live Q&A Includes a 7-day recorded playback(for anyone who could not attend live) CLICK HERE to learn
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There is little doubt the economic recession of 2008-2009 had a significant impact on the nation’s fire service. Hardly a day went by where there wasn’t some news about an organization that downsized, rightsized or capsized. There are all kinds of explanations and terms being attached to what happened. One I heard at the time
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SAMatters Program Handouts (listed in alphabetical order) Situational Awareness – Australia 2022 Situational Awareness and High-Risk Decision Making Situational Awareness for First Responders Situational Awareness to Enhance Administrative Decision Making Situational Awareness for Wildland Fighters Situational Awareness for Hazardous Materials Situational Awareness for Traffic Incident Management Situational Awareness for Pipeline Safety Situational Awareness for Communications
The mission of Situational Awareness Matters is to help you see the bad things coming… in time to change bad outcomes. SA is a complex neurological process and I go to painstaking efforts to ensure that what I teach here, on the podcast and in classrooms is “first responder friendly.” I don’t ever want a
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Everyone has fears and fear can certainly impact a person’s situational awareness. Some people are better at controlling their fears while others are controlled by their fears. Some people mask their fears well while others wear their fear on their sleeves. Some people live in denial of their fears and others face their fears and
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When it comes to developing and maintaining situational awareness, tunnel vision is a big deal. Effective situational awareness is developed from having a broad perception of the environment in which you are operating. As your focus narrows, you start to miss things. Those “missed things” are like lost puzzle pieces, leaving holes in your understanding
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Imagine for a moment that you’re part of a 4-person first-due crew responding on to an apartment fire. On the way to the call the dispatcher announces over the radio that a caller is reporting the fire to be on the first floor of a three-story apartment building. Your company officer tells you that on
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