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Episode 142 | Interview with Near Miss Survivor Rick Mehaffey

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Assumptions, Building Construction, Close Call, Complacency, Lost Focus, Mindfulness, Mission Myopia, Near Miss, Personnel location, Prediction, Risk Assessment, SAMatters Radio, Tunnel Vision, understaffing / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, Captain Ricky Mehaffey from the Waynesville NC Fire Department, chronicles his near-miss survival story where 3 firefighters almost died at a “routine” chimney fire. Length: 48 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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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 124 | Facilitated Debriefings

Leave a Comment / Close Call, Communications, Equipment, Habits, Human Error, Leadership, Near Miss, Personal Protective Equipment, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Teamwork / Rich Gasaway

In this episode we look at how facilitated debriefings used in aviation safety to improve air travel can be applied to emergency services to improve responder safety. Length: 33 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness and

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Episode 120 | Interview with Instructor John Dixon

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attitude, Automatic Action, Biases, Bravado, Complacency, Confusion, Culture, Defiance, Denial, Ego, Error Creep, Habits, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Incompetence, Invincible, Judgment, Leadership, Over Confident, Pressure, Routines, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Under Confident / Rich Gasaway

In this episode I sat down for an interview with Instructor John Dixon to discuss his passion topic – the normalization of deviance. Length: 63 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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Complacency – a barrier to situational awareness

2 Comments / Article, Attention Management, Complacency, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Factors, Incompetence, Leadership, Safety, Situational awareness, Situational Readiness, Tacit Knowledge, Training / Rich Gasaway

We develop and maintain situational awareness by being perceptive about what is happening around us. To be perceptive, we must pay attention to what is going on in our environment. We can employ all of our senses to help us pay attention – seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting and smelling. However, if we let our guard

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Episode 115 | Vehicle Fire Situational Awareness

Leave a Comment / Attention Management, Close Call, Complacency, Culture, Decision Making, Expectations, Habits, Human Error, Judgment, Near Miss, Over Confident, Personal Protective Equipment, Personnel location, Prediction, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Standard Operating Procedures/Guidelines, Task Fixation / Rich Gasaway

In this episode we explore the importance of developing and maintain situational awareness while operating on the scenes of vehicle fires. Length: 34 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

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The Comfortable Routine of Complacency

1 Comment / Article, Complacency, Culture, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Incompetence, Safety, Situational awareness / Rich Gasaway

We all know we have habits. Some of them are good habits. And some of them are…well… not so good. The less often talked about cousin of a habit is a routine. Habits and routines can impact situational awareness in both good and bad ways. [tweet this] But where do habits and routines come from?

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Episode 110 | Live Events Q&A

1 Comment / Assumptions, Attention Management, Building Construction, Cognitive Memory, Expectations, Experience, Gut Feeling, Information overload, Intuition, Long-Term Memory, Mindfulness, Overload, Pattern Matching, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Prediction, SAMatters Radio, Size Up, Tacit Knowledge / Rich Gasaway

In this episode I share some of the more commonly asked questions that come up during live Situational Awareness events. Length: 51 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 107 | Interview with Hagerstown Fire Chief Steve Lohr

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Building Construction, Complacency, Crew Resource Management, Culture, Decision Making, Leadership, Mission, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Staffing, Teamwork, Training, understaffing / Rich Gasaway

In this episode I interview Hagerstown Fire Chief Steve Lohr. After serving 30 years with Montgomery County Fire Department, Chief Lohr accepted a position with the Hagerstown Fire Department – a department much smaller than his previous department and with far fewer resources. We discuss the safety and the improvements

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Episode 104 | Eric Dreiman – Flashover Survival Story – Part 2

1 Comment / SAMatters Radio / Rich Gasaway

This is Part 2 of an interview with Captain Eric Dreiman, Indianapolis Fire Department about his survival of a flashover event that resulted in multiple burns. Length: 47 minutes click the YouTube icon to listen _____________________________________________________ If you are interested in taking your understanding of situational awareness

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