SAMatters Radio
418 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsThe mission of the Situational Awareness Matters! Radio Show is to help you see the bad things coming... in time to avoid bad outcomes by improving your understanding of human factors, situational awareness and decision making under stress. Listen and learn from hundreds of incredible interviews with first responders who survived near-miss events.
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SAM 215 | Dave Beauregard Interview – Part 2
June 05, 2018 11:00 - 49 minutes - 38.8 MBOn May 5, 2015, Chicopee Fire Deputy Chief Dave Beauregard responded to a report of an electrical fire – reported to already be out – at an industrial facility on Meadow Street in Chicopee. Chief Beauregard discusses how his complacency contributed to a near-miss that if circumstances were just slightly different it could have killed him. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Mu...
SAM 214 | Dave Beauregard Interview – Part 1
May 29, 2018 11:00 - 46 minutes - 36.7 MBOn May 5, 2015, Chicopee Fire Deputy Chief Dave Beauregard responded to a report of an electrical fire – reported to already be out – at an industrial facility on Meadow Street in Chicopee. Chief Beauregard discusses how his complacency contributed to a near-miss that if circumstances were just slightly different it could have killed him. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Mu...
SAM 213 | Jim Woolf Interview – Part 2
May 22, 2018 11:00 - 44 minutes - 34.6 MBOn March 20, 2003, Twinsburg Firefighter-Paramedic Jim Woolf responded on Engine 4 to a reported electrical fire in an apartment building under construction. The fire was reported to have been extinguished by workers on-site. On arrival there was nothing showing and the crews went to the second floor to investigate. What happened next was entirely unexpected and, as Jim stated, could have easily killed him. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance...
SAM 212 | Jim Woolf Interview - Part 1
May 15, 2018 11:00 - 41 minutes - 32.6 MBOn March 20, 2003, Twinsburg Firefighter-Paramedic Jim Woolf responded on Engine 4 to a reported electrical fire in an apartment building under construction. The fire was reported to have been extinguished by workers on-site. On arrival there was nothing showing and the crews went to the second floor to investigate. What happened next was entirely unexpected and, as Jim stated, could have easily killed him. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance...
SAM 211 | 4th Anniversary episode
May 08, 2018 11:00 - 45 minutes - 36.1 MBIn 2007, Situational Awareness Matters was founded, initially, to help first responder improve high-risk decision making. From a single program delivered at a conference a movement was started that now includes over 100,000 program attendees, newsletter subscribers and social media followers. This episode shares personal reflections from Dr. Gasaway and others who have been impacted by his teachings. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982)...
SAM 210 | Observations and lessons from FDIC
May 01, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 29.4 MBThis was my 20th year presenting at the Fire Department Instructors Conference. This is the first time I’ve dedicated an episode of the podcast to observations I made from the classes I attended and the attendees I talked with. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Music Situational Awareness Matters! website www.SAMatters.com Firefighter Near Miss Reporting System ht...
SAM 209 | Tacit knowledge
April 24, 2018 11:00 - 30 minutes - 14 MBTacit knowledge is that collection of life’s experiences, education and training that resides outside conscious awareness. It’s the knowledge one possesses that helps tap into intuition, a vital component to making high-stress, high-consequence, and rapid decisions. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Music Situational Awareness Matters! website www.SAMatters.com ...
SAM 208 | Team Situational Awareness
April 17, 2018 11:00 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBIf we’re being honest with ourselves, we know that not all team members are created equal. It is a situational awareness best practice to know the strengths (and weaknesses) of your team before engaging in high-risk, high-consequence activities. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Music Situational Awareness Matters! website www.SAMatters.com Firefighter Near Miss...
SAM 207 | Selective Listening
April 10, 2018 11:00 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBBecause individuals and teams frequently operate in environments where there are multiple auditory inputs (e.g., radio traffic, face-to-face communications, ambient sounds, etc.) they are often forced to prioritize what they listen to (or don’t listen to). This can cause issues with situational awareness. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Music Situational Awareness Mat...
SAM 206 | Competing Goals
April 03, 2018 11:00 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MBArguably, to accomplish a mission, it would be very beneficial to have a shared set of goals that everyone understands and everyone is working on together in a unified way to accomplish. Shared goals can contribute to shared situational awareness – a common understanding of what is happening and what the plan of action entails – Answering questions like: What is being done and why? What is the strategy and why? What is each person’s role? How are the roles interconnected? It is easier to fu...
SAM 205 | Frustration
March 27, 2018 11:00 - 27 minutes - 12.4 MBAnyone who’s been frustrated knows it can consume a lot of your mental energy and thinking space. This can significantly impact your situational awareness. In fact, depending on the level of frustration, your brain can be hijacked by all-consuming thoughts about what is causing your angst. While operating in a high-risk, high-stress environment, frustration may draw your attention away from perceiving or understanding critical inputs that form awareness. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire Midwe...
SAM 204 | Assumptions
March 20, 2018 11:00 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MBWe make assumptions every day. Some of them are accurate. Others are not. Assumptions occur when there is an absence of complete information. Such is the case at just about every high-risk, high-consequence event you must deal with. Let’s explore how we make assumptions. An assumption is a mental guess or estimate. In the absence of complete information, you are forced to fill in the missing information with your best guess. This guess is based on your collective knowledge (training, expe...
SAM 203 | Normalization of Deviance
March 13, 2018 11:00 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBWe rationalize that because we are operating in conditions of stress and consequence, with urgency and a feeling of pressure to perform quickly, we can take shortcuts to our best practices. Some even go as far as to rationalize that we SHOULD shortcut our safety best practices when faced with conditions that are urgent. This episode explores how shortcuts, rewarded with successful outcomes can lead to normalization of deviance. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intr...
SAM 202 | Relationship Bias
March 06, 2018 12:00 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBThe premise behind relationship bias is that we tend to be attracted toward (and like) people whom we know well and to whom we know share similar interests. The stronger our relationship with another person, the more likely we are to believe them when they tell us something. The weaker the relationship, the less likely we are to believe the other person. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Lic...
SAM 201 | When unexpected things happen
February 27, 2018 12:00 - 33 minutes - 27.1 MBWhen everything goes as planned, your expectations are met and situational awareness is easily formed and sustained. However, sometimes your expectations are violated. In other words, your beautifully constructed mental model of the outcomes of an event are flawed. When this happens, your brain can become overwhelmed with confusion. It can also lead to anger and frustration because your brain doesn’t like to be wrong. This, in turn, can impact your situational awareness. Our sponsor:...
SAM 200 | Chesterfield County Interview – Part 3
February 20, 2018 12:00 - 50 minutes - 39.2 MBIn the early morning hours of January 17, 2016, Chesterfield County Fire & EMS responded to a residential fire on Wicklow Lane that would result in fire civilian fire fatalities, including 2 children. This three-part interview chronicles the event, the situational awareness challenges and the lessons learned from the first-in captain and the first arriving battalion chief. See the FULL interview on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/M0KHehMIQXc Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com ...
SAM 199 | Chesterfield County Interview – Part 2
February 13, 2018 12:00 - 58 minutes - 45.8 MBIn the early morning hours of January 17, 2016, Chesterfield County Fire & EMS responded to a residential fire on Wicklow Lane that would result in fire civilian fire fatalities, including 2 children. This three-part interview chronicles the event, the situational awareness challenges and the lessons learned from the first-in captain and the first arriving battalion chief. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - V...
SAM 198 | Chesterfield County Interview – Part 1
February 06, 2018 12:00 - 46 minutes - 35.6 MBIn the early morning hours of January 17, 2016, Chesterfield County Fire & EMS responded to a residential fire on Wicklow Lane that would result in fire civilian fire fatalities, including 2 children. This three-part interview chronicles the event, the situational awareness challenges and the lessons learned from the first-in captain and the first arriving battalion chief. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - V...
SAM 197 | Interview with Jason Bonney – Part 2
January 30, 2018 12:00 - 53 minutes - 24.3 MBJason Bonney has been with the Central Jackson Fire Protection District in Blue Springs, Missouri for 15 years where he serves as the Assistant Chief of Training. Jason is working on his research paper for the Executive Fire Officer Program at the National Fire Academy. During the interview we talk about the connection between training and performing on high-risk events. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC ...
SAM 196 | Interview with Jason Bonney – Part 1
January 23, 2018 12:00 - 53 minutes - 24.3 MBJason Bonney has been with the Central Jackson Fire Protection District in Blue Springs, Missouri for 15 years where he serves as the Assistant Chief of Training. Jason is working on his research paper for the Executive Fire Officer Program at the National Fire Academy. During the interview we talk about the connection between training and performing on high-risk events. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - V...
SAM 195 | Crisis Response Journal Interview – Part 2
January 16, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBChristo Motz is an International Consultant on Survival and Resilience. As a board member he writes articles for the Crisis Response Journal on topics related to self-reliance, survival and community safety during a crisis. In this episode Christo interviews Dr. Gasaway in preparation for an article his is writing for the Journal. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Music ...
SAM 194 | Crisis Response Journal Interview – Part 1
January 09, 2018 12:00 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBChristo Motz is an International Consultant on Survival and Resilience. As a board member he writes articles for the Crisis Response Journal on topics related to self-reliance, survival and community safety during a crisis. In this episode he interviews Dr. Gasaway in preparation for an article his is writing for the Journal. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Music S...
SAM 193 | Herd Mentality
January 02, 2018 12:00 - 31 minutes - 14.4 MBHerd mentality occurs when individuals group together and follow each other for inexplicable reasons. This is sometimes referred to as the “mob mentality” and is observed during riots. When one-person yells loudly and charges forward, the herd (or mob) follows. This episode discusses how herd mentality might impact situational awareness and decision making at emergency scenes. Notable Near-Miss Episodes 17 – Doug Abernathy – double fatal 18 – Sean Dolan - Flashover 19 – Stev...
SAM 192 | Amtrak Train Derailment Interview with Larry Creekmore
December 26, 2017 12:00 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MBOn December 18, 2017 an Amtrak train bound for Portland from Seattle derailed on a busy overpass on Interstate 5 in DuPont, Washington. This interview is Chief Creekmore’s first hand perspective of the incident. He discusses the complexity of an incident that resulted in 3 fatalities and nearly 100 victims transported to area hospitals. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Music...
SAM 191 | Interview with Norfolk Assistant Fire Chief John DiBacco – Part 2
December 19, 2017 12:00 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MBIn October I was in Chesapeake to deliver two-days of situational awareness training and I caught up with one of my life-long friends, Norfolk Assistant Fire Chief, John DiBacco. John and I served together on our first fire department in Weirton, West Virginia. During the interview we talked about the process of after-action reviews John uses to gather and share lessons with his crews. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without ...
SAM 190 | Interview with Norfolk Assistant Fire Chief John DiBacco – Part 1
December 12, 2017 12:00 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MBIn September I was in Chesapeake to deliver two-days of situational awareness training and I caught up with one of my life-long friends, Norfolk Assistant Fire Chief, John DiBacco. John and I served together on our first fire department in Weirton, West Virginia. During the interview we talked about the process of after-action reviews John uses to gather and share lessons with his crews. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Withou...
SAM 189 | Communications Overload
December 05, 2017 12:00 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBIn reading casualty reports you will often see issues related to communications as a contributing factor. Miscommunications, lack of communications or too much radio traffic (to include overloaded radio channels) are often cited. It is the last of these issues I want to address. There is an inherent cognitive consequence from too much communications that can impact situational awareness. Essentially, you can stop listening… and it doesn’t happen on purpose. Our sponsor: Midwest F...
SAM 189 | Communications Overload
December 05, 2017 12:00 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBIn reading casualty reports you will often see issues related to communications as a contributing factor. Miscommunications, lack of communications or too much radio traffic (to include overloaded radio channels) are often cited. It is the last of these issues I want to address. There is an inherent cognitive consequence from too much communications that can impact situational awareness. Essentially, you can stop listening… and it doesn’t happen on purpose. Our sponsor: Midwest F...
SAM 188 | When the puzzle pieces don't fit
November 28, 2017 13:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBThis episode chronicles an event where responders were managing two cardiac arrest calls in a hotel room. Initial response teams did not consider the possibility of carbon monoxide as the potential cause and the outcome was almost catastrophic for the response teams. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Music Situational Awareness Matters! website www.SAMatters.com Fir...
SAM 187 | Standards May Harm Decision Making
November 21, 2017 12:00 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MBOftentimes employee training involves scenarios where workers learn how to perform to the scripted standards. On the surface, there’s nothing wrong with that. However, the employee training scenarios are often developed to ensure the outcome of the training will be success. And, as many workers know, the complexity of many work issues can often require actions that are not consistent with the Standards. In other words, workers must veer from the written standard and be resilient problem ...
SAM 186 | You can’t handle the truth
November 14, 2017 12:00 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MBIf you have attended one of my situational awareness programs you have learned how stress is a game-changer when it comes to situational awareness and decision making quality. Most employee training programs focus on developing cognitive knowledge and physical skills. Far less address the impact of stress on situational awareness and decision making and the seemingly irrational (some might even term it bazaar) behaviors manifested by some workers when they are under stress. Our spon...
SAM 185 | St. Charles Fire Department Near Miss – Part 3
November 07, 2017 12:00 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MBOn January 3, 2014, the St. Charles Fire Department responded to a single-family residential dwelling fire on Nancy Drive. This podcast chronicles events (told by Captain Chip Ashford and Battalion Chief Dan Casey) as they unfolded. The thermal assault enduring by these firefighters resulted in injuries that included second and third-degree burns and a shoulder injury from bailing out a window. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Wit...
SAM 184 | St. Charles Fire Department Near Miss – Part 2
October 31, 2017 11:00 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBOn January 3, 2014, the St. Charles Fire Department responded to a single-family residential dwelling fire on Nancy Drive. This podcast chronicles events (told by Captain Chip Ashford and Battalion Chief Dan Casey) as they unfolded. The thermal assault enduring by these firefighters resulted in injuries that included second and third-degree burns and a shoulder injury from bailing out a window. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) ...
SAM 183 | St. Charles Fire Department Near Miss – Part 1
October 24, 2017 11:00 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBOn January 3, 2014, the St. Charles Fire Department responded to a single-family residential dwelling fire on Nancy Drive. This podcast chronicles events (told by Captain Chip Ashford and Battalion Chief Dan Casey) as they unfolded. The thermal assault enduring by these firefighters resulted in injuries that included second and third-degree burns and a shoulder injury from bailing out a window. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men W...
SAM 182 | Colorado Springs FD Interview – Part 2
October 17, 2017 11:00 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBOn May 31, 2017, I delivered a presentation to the Colorado Springs Fire Department in Situational Awareness. During the program we engaged in a conversation about how they do their training. I was so impressed that I asked them to do an interview with me. This is part 2 of a two-part interview with: Jason Buckingham, Lieutenant, Station 8; Jesse Weddle, Firefighter, Station 8; and, Brian Lynch, Lieutenant, Station 1. Bryan Lynch is a Lieutenant assigned to fire station 1 in downtown Co...
SAM 181 | Colorado Springs FD Interview – Part 1
October 10, 2017 11:00 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBOn May 31, 2017, I delivered a presentation to the Colorado Springs Fire Department in Situational Awareness. During the program we engaged in a conversation about how they do their training. I was so impressed that I asked them to do an interview with me. This is part 1 of a two-part interview with: Jason Buckingham, Lieutenant, Station 8; Jesse Weddle, Firefighter, Station 8; and, Brian Lynch, Lieutenant, Station 1. Bryan Lynch is a Lieutenant assigned to fire station 1 in downtown C...
SAM 180 | Accountability
October 03, 2017 11:00 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MBAccountability is a critically important component to the safety of employees when they are operating in hazardous environments. From the perspective of situational awareness, accountability plays several roles. The obvious role is personnel accountability facilitates the rapid deployment of teams if something goes wrong. The person in-charge knows the team sizes and where the teams are operating at and can send help expeditiously. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intr...
SAM 179 | Coordinated Actions
September 26, 2017 11:00 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MBThe potential issue from uncoordinated, independent action is it may be unrealistic to think multiple individuals, or multiple teams can begin work on a problem, at varied times, and make the same assessment of the situation/conditions and know, automatically, what other team members are doing and what goals they are trying to accomplish. This can cause problems with team and big-picture situational awareness. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance ...
SAM 178 | Explaining Tunnel Vision
September 19, 2017 11:00 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBWhen it comes to developing and maintaining situational awareness, tunnel vision is a big deal. Situational awareness is developed by having a broad perception of the environment in which you are operating. As your focus narrows, you start to miss things. Those “missed things” are like lost puzzle pieces, leaving holes in your understanding of what is happening. Thus, situational awareness can be impacted. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (...
SAM 177 | Time to task completion
September 12, 2017 11:00 - 29 minutes - 13.7 MBYour highest level of situational awareness is formed when you are able to make accurate predictions about future events. We call this projection and it simply means you are able to predict, or project, the future. This is accomplished through mental models you develop that are founded in your training and experience. But for supervisors, it requires more than training and experience to make accurate projections of the future. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro mus...
SAM 176 | Imagination
September 05, 2017 11:00 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MBIn this episode, we discuss how to use your imagination to anticipate outcomes – an important component of developing strong situational awareness. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Music Situational Awareness Matters! website www.SAMatters.com Firefighter Near Miss Reporting System http://www.firefighternearmiss.com/ Contact Rich Gasaway www.RichGasaw...
SAM 175 | Positive reinforcement of undesired behavior
August 29, 2017 11:00 - 22 minutes - 10.1 MBIn this episode, I am taking on a topic often discussed in my leadership programs more often than in my situational awareness programs – motivation. I’m not going to get in to depth on the topic of motivation as it takes me a solid four hours in a classroom session to demystify the topic and reveal the secret sauce for how people are motivated. However, there is one fundamental component of motivation that has a direct implication to firefighter safety – the positive reinforcement of undesi...
SAM 174 | Complex Communications
August 22, 2017 11:00 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MBWe have many traits that make us uniquely human. Among them is our ability to engage in complex communications. We can look at black ink squiggled on a piece of bleached paper and derive meaning from those symbols. We call that skill reading comprehension. And we can listen to and comprehend the meaning of more than 10,000 words. We call that listening comprehension. Indeed, our ability to communicate is quite complex. But our complex communications system has a downside also – complex...
SAM 173 | Bravado
August 15, 2017 11:00 - 26 minutes - 12 MBA person displaying bravado is not concerned with his or her own safety. They are only concerned with looking courageous. This does not make the individual brave. It makes the individual dangerous. Once a person gets into the bravado mindset, the critical first two steps in the formation of situational awareness (purposefully capturing clues and cues and comprehending clues and cues into meaning) can be flawed. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Sa...
SAM 172 | Confirmation Bias
August 08, 2017 11:00 - 27 minutes - 12.7 MBThe foundation of situational awareness is capturing clues and cues in your environment – what some would call “paying attention” – and then making sense of those clues and cues – what some would call “understanding” – and then making projections of future events – what some would call “prediction.” One of the challenges in the formation of situational awareness that can arise during the “understanding” phase is Confirmation Bias. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Int...
SAM 171 | Expectations can impact Situational Awareness
August 01, 2017 11:00 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MBOne way to control your reaction to stress is to first understand what causes you to be stressed. There are the obvious stressors – physical demands of the work, time compression to make quick decisions, dangerous and unpredictable work. Then there are the less than obvious stressors – peer pressure and the fear that can result from not meeting citizen expectations and/or elected official expectations. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (...
SAM 170 | Interview with Brad Davidson
July 25, 2017 11:00 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MBIt is so easy to trudge over your intuition and to trust your logical, rational form of thinking. Not only can this be unwise, it can also be deadly. Today’s guest shares an experience where he trusted his intuition and it saved his life. Unfortunately, others working on this job site were not so lucky as there were 13 injuries (3 critical) and one fatality. Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records ...
SAM 169 | Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 5
July 18, 2017 11:00 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MBIf you have spent time reading a large number of firefighter fatality reports you might start to see the real-life manifestation of Einstein’s definition of insanity. In fact, I would go as far as to say we’ve gotten to the point where we are discovering very few new ways to kill firefighters. Rather, we’re taking all the ways we already know how to do it and we’re perfecting it by doing it over and over… and over… and over… again. This is Einstein’s insanity personified. In this series we ...
SAM 168 | Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 4
July 11, 2017 11:00 - 23 minutes - 10.6 MBIf you have spent time reading a large number of firefighter fatality reports you might start to see the real-life manifestation of Einstein’s definition of insanity. In fact, I would go as far as to say we’ve gotten to the point where we are discovering very few new ways to kill firefighters. Rather, we’re taking all the ways we already know and we’re perfecting it by doing it over and over… and over… and over… again. This is Einstein’s insanity personified. In this series, we will examine...
SAM 167 | Situational Awareness Insanity – Part 3
July 04, 2017 11:00 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MBIf you have spent time reading a large number of firefighter fatality reports you might start to see the real-life manifestation of Einstein’s definition of insanity. In fact, I would go as far as to say we’ve gotten to the point where we are discovering very few new ways to kill firefighters. Rather, we’re taking all the ways we already know how to do it and we’re perfecting it by doing it over and over… and over… and over… again. This is Einstein’s insanity personified. In this series, we...