Chapter 13: Data and Information Management Flashcards
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How can data and information management create significant challenges at many emergency scenes?
All the clues and cues that form situational awareness can be classified as data when the responders struggles to capture, process, comprehend, and/or recall data and information there is potential for situational awareness consequence.
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What problems can arise with copious data and on an emergency scene?
Commanders can get overloaded, more information coming at them than they can possibly make sense of
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If there is only one commander and he must listen to all the radio traffic what may happen to the incident commanders situational awareness?
Responder may become so intent on listening to radio traffic that important visual cues are missed
Responder can be so intent on seeing the visual cues that important audible (radio) cues are missed.
Responder can attempt to split attention between the two and in the process missed both audible and visual cues.
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How does your brain process verbal messages?
How can this it impact situational awareness?
Brain processes verbal messages as visual images, meaning each verbal message becomes a mental picture.
When the number verbal messages exceeds the brain’s capacity to process the the messages into images some of the verbal messages may not be processed and comprehended into meaning.
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What is the challenge specific to audible messages?
The brain can’t determine whether the messages are important until the sound ways are taken in and processed. When the brain reaches its capacity to process audible messages additional messages may be missed. At this point both audio and visual information is vulnerable
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How can a commander or company officer improve situational awareness and confirm their visual representations?
By conducting a thorough size up
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What is one of the most important ways responders can capture or confirm important clues and cues?
The size up
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How can the size up contribute to each level I of situational awareness?
Level I – its essential to the formation of accurate capturing of clues and cues in the environment.
If failed to be conducted, commander is forced to rely on imagination extrapolated from verbal messages. This can contribute to a flawed level I situational awareness, that may lead to flaws in level 2 & 3 of situational awareness.
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Size ups are important parts of situational awareness on the fire scene.
If the size up is incomplete or not performed what impact does it have on situational awareness?
An incomplete size it can prohibit the responder from gathering critical clues and cues and this can fall situational awareness.
If you don’t collect useful and meaningful information, then you can’t figure out what’s going on.
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How does crew accountability tie-in to situational awareness?
In order to have level III situational awareness where you are predicting the future needs of the incident you need to have a good understanding of your crew their abilities and weaknesses.
Without that information you’ll not be able to correctly model and maintain level III situational awareness.
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Why is important the size of your crew in advance?
How is this done?
In order to improve your situational awareness must understand the abilities and inabilities of your personnel.
This can be done by watching them learn at training.
