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Situational Awareness Matters!™


Helping individuals and teams understand human factors,
reduce the impact of situational awareness barriers,
and improve decision making under stress.

Dec 29, 2015

I recently read with great interest a very long thread on Facebook about whether or not an incident commander should wear turnout gear at a fire scene. As my focus and passion is improving first responder situational awareness, I would like to address this issue from that perspective.

The feedback on Facebook was, as...


Dec 22, 2015

If I were to tell you that on an emergency scene it is possible for you to use X-Ray vision, you'd probably think I've been watching too many Superman movies. But it is possible for you to look right through a solid object on an emergency scene and see what's beyond it. Seriously! This episode will explain how that...


Dec 15, 2015

This episode defines high reliability organizations and looks at the common threads that have emerged in organizations that embrace HRO philosophies. We will look at:

  • Organizational complexity
  • Teamwork
  • How knowledge supersedes rank
  • Communications
  • Accountability
  • Feedback
  • Compressed time constraints
  • Sensitivity to...


Dec 8, 2015

In this episode we provide a working definition of situational awareness and take the mystery out of how it is developed and maintained by individuals working in high risk, high consequence environments.

Specifically, we will discuss:

  • Perception
  • Understanding
  • Prediction
  • Intuition
  • Pattern Matching
  • Tacit Knowledge

And...


Dec 1, 2015

In this episode we discussed some really important and valuable topics that all firefighters can face, including:

 

  • How to maintain control of you own personal situation when you show up on scene of a house fire and find out that it is owned and or occupied by either a family member, loved one, ex partner, friend,...