Flawed Situational Awareness: The Stealth Killer of First Responders

Most first responders understand, at the fundamental level, that it is important to develop and maintain situational awareness at emergency scenes. Following near-miss and casualty events, responders and investigators often cite flawed situational awareness as a contributing factor.

Yet most first responders lack a basic understanding of how situational awareness is developed and maintained. Even worse, very few understand what situational awareness to be impacted.

Flawed situational awareness is NEVER the root cause of a first responder near-miss or casualty. It is a SYMPTOM. The barriers that flaw situational awareness are the root causes. The presenter has conducted thorough research on the cognitive neuroscience of decision making and has uncovered more than one hundred barriers that can impact situational awareness.

This fast-paced program will introduce you to some of the leading situational awareness barriers like: Pre-arrival lens, Confabulation, Mission Myopia, Mind drift, Staffing issues, Cognitive biases, Normalization of deviance, Human factors, Complacency, The curse of knowledge, Overconfidence, Technology, Miscommunications, Command location, Peer and supervisor pressure, Command support, Overload, Fear-driven decisions, Task fixation, Culture, Task saturation… and more.