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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.

To register, download...Mental Management of Emergencies

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Add to Calendar aCLuDhaqizCaPxAftmqF167204 07/16/2015 08:30 AM 07/16/2015 04:30 PM false Mental Management of Emergencies 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. To register, download...Mental Management of Emergencies Hilton Columbus at Easton, Columbus, OH