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Dyslexia in the Fire Service: The Burt Clark Story – 396

Leave a Comment / Assumptions, Attention Management, Attitude, Biases, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Competency, Confusion, Culture, Decision Making, Denial, Disoriented, Emotions, Experience, Explicit Knowledge, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Factors, Incompetence, Information overload, Intuition, Judgment, Leadership, Long-Term Memory, Lost Focus, Mind Drift, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, Pattern Matching, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Selective Listening, Sensory Conflict, Shared Mental Models, Short Term Memory, Stress, Tacit Knowledge, Task Saturation, Under Confident, understaffing, Understanding, Vigilance, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, Dr. Gasaway talks with Dr. Burton Clark on the topic of Dyslexia in the fire service. Dr. Burton A. Clark, EFO has been in the fire service for 53 years. He’s known he was a Dyslexic since early childhood and is passionate about reducing the stigma around firefighters with Dyslexia. Dr. Clark was […]

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The SAMatters Online Academy – An interview with Ed Mann – 395

Leave a Comment / Accountability, Anger, Article, Attitude, Cognitive Memory, Communications, Confusion, Culture, Decision Making, Defiance, Denial, Disoriented, Emotions, Expectations, Experience, Explicit Knowledge, Fatigue, Fear, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Frustration, Gut Feeling, Human Behavior, Human Factors, Illness, Intuition, Long-Term Memory, Lost Focus, Mindfulness, Near Miss, Neuroscience, Overload, Overwhelm, Pattern Matching, Perception, Perception Of Reality, Physical Fitness, Prediction, Preoccupation, Pressure, Risk, Risk Management, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Stress, Tacit Knowledge, Task Fixation, Task Saturation, Teamwork, Workload Management / Rich Gasaway

In this episode, Dr. Gasaway is interviewed by Ed Mann, Director of Training and Education for Provident Insurance about the SAMatters Online Academy and why this training is so important for first responders. Ed Mann, Director of Training and Education for Provident Insurance interviewed Dr. Gasaway on the Provident Podcast. This episode is a

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Live Events Q & A – SAM 362

Leave a Comment / Comprehension, Decision Making, Firefighter Situational Awareness, Human Behavior, Human Error, Human Factors, Judgment, Leadership, Neuroscience, Perception, Prediction, Questions & Answers, Risk, Risk Assessment, Safety, SAMatters Radio, Situational awareness, Understanding / Rich Gasaway

In this episode I share some of the more commonly asked questions that come up during live Situational Awareness events. This Q&A session addresses questions from recent live situational awareness programs. Much of the inspiration for the blog posts come from participant questions but this may be the first podcast episode dedicated to questions asked

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