See the bad things coming in time to change the outcome!
Flawed situational awareness is a leading contributing factor to first responder near-miss and casualty events. Yet, sadly, most first responders know very little about situational awareness – what it is, how to develop it, what erodes it and how to regain it once it has been eroded.
This book – the second in a series – is a collection of articles from the highly acclaimed SAMatters.com blog. Each contribution discusses the challenges first responders face while trying to develop and maintain situational awareness while making decisions in high-risk, high consequence, time compressed, rapidly changing environments, including:
-Stress
-Communications
-Vigilance
-Tunnel Vision
-Auditory Exclusion
-Information Overload
-Time Distortion
-Bad Habits
-Technology
-Peer Pressure
-Size-up
-Noise
-Mindset
-Freelancing
-Accountability
And more…
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