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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.

May 30, 2014

 

On this episode we’ll talk about…

1. The role of emotions in decision making.

2. I’ll share a report about a  first responder who had a near-miss with a chain saw.

3. And we’ll talk about why so few first responders and industrial workers are being taught about situational awareness.

 

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May 23, 2014

 

On this episode we’ll talk about…

 

 

1. The importance of completing a 360 degree size-up.

 

 

2. We’ll share a near-miss event where a combination of inexperience, freelancing, and assumptions led to a loss of accountability.

 

 

3. And we’ll address a community member’s question about how to...


May 16, 2014

 

On this episode we’ll talk about…

 

1.Positive and negative clues and cues that form situational awareness.

 

2.We will share a near-miss event where a first responder was nearly run over by a fire department command vehicle.

 

3.And we will address a dilemma where a listener shares his concern about...


May 9, 2014

 

On this episode we’ll talk about…

 

1.Habits, routines and complacency.

 

2.We will look at a near-miss event where tunnel vision and complacency may have flawed situational awareness.

 

3.And we will address a question from an SAMatters community member about how to make mayday training...


May 2, 2014

Welcome to the first episode of the Situational Awareness Matters! Radio show.

 

And since this is the first episode I thought it would be appropriate to share with you how the back story of how Situational Awareness Matters got started.

 

You will also be provided with a good working definition...