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July 16, 2015
8:30AM - 4:30PM
Mental Management of Emergencies
Improving First Responder Situational Awareness and Decision Making Under Stress
Hilton Columbus at Easton, Columbus, OH
Since the inception of the National Firefighter Near-Miss Reporting System in 2005, the leading contributing factors to near-miss events are NOT strategy, tactics, equipment, procedures or training. The leading contributing factors are flawed situational awareness, poor decision making and human error. Likewise, the line-of-duty death investigation reports issued by the National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health repeatedly cite issues with situational awareness and decision making as leading contributing factors in casualty events. Organizations with state-of-the-art equipment, sound strategy and tactics, well-developed SOPs and command training centers are still experiencing incident scene casualties. The solution to improving your safety lies with improving your situational awareness and decision-making…learning how to see the bad things coming in time to change the outcome.
This program explores and discusses:
- Six ways physical and mental stress impact decision making
- Seven step process of making decisions in high stress, dynamic, rapidly changing environments
- Four essential components to making quality decisions under stress
- How the brain uses pattern matching, mental modeling and information chunking to make high stress decisions
- Three levels of situational awareness including how to develop and maintain each
- Common situational awareness that can have catastrophic outcomes
- Best practices for developing and maintaining situational awareness in high stress, high consequence situations
NOTE: This is not a strategy and tactics presentation. This program focuses on the neuroscience of high stress, high consequence decision making and the process for developing and maintaining situational awareness.
Presenter: Richard Gasaway worked as a first responder in 3 public safety organizations including 22 years as a Fire Chief. After completing his distinguished 30-year career, Dr. Gasaway founded Situational Awareness Matters!, a consulting and teaching organization dedicated to improving how individuals, teams and organizations develop situational awareness as a foundation for improving workplace and personal safety.
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