Chapter 5: Situational Awareness Research Flashcards
Chapter 5: Situational Awareness Research p83-84
What was the subject group and operational environment in the study conducted by the author?
Fireground commanders in charge of residential dwelling fire scenes.
Chapter 5: Situational Awareness Research p88
How many different ways can the situational awareness of the commander be challenged?
116
Chapter 5: Situational Awareness Research p88-90
Multiple card sort technique
Each barrier was listed on the index card, and a sample sentence was provided for context. In a controlled environment commanders were asked to read all the cards and place them in one of three boxes labeled minor challenge, moderate challenge, major challenge. A rule that all boxes must have equal distribution and could be resorted until they were done. 21 in each box.
Next applicants resorted the 21 major distractions equally again into major, moderate, minor with equal distribution. Seven each.
They were then asked the seven major distractions again equally into major, moderate, and minor.
Finally they were asked to rank the top three distractions in order first, second, and third.
40 to 90 minutes
Chapter 5: Situational Awareness Research p90-91
After the multiple card slot technique was complete what did researchers do?
After the top three challenges to situational awareness were identified the fire ground commanders were interviewed about their experiences addressing each barrier separately.
The interviews were transcribed, then coded. Coding entailed reading each line of the transcript and finding instances where other barriers were mentioned. The number of times barrier was mentioned was equated with how challenging that barrier was to good decision-making.
Chapter 5: Situational Awareness Research p91
What was discovered through coding?
Participants identified new situational awareness barriers not previously discovered. The interconnectedness barriers also became evident.
Chapter 5: Situational Awareness Research p91
After coding what was the next step in researching situational awareness barriers?
Due to the number of barriers they were grouped into 12 situational awareness barrier categories
Chapter 5: Situational Awareness Research p92
What are the top 12 situational barrier categories:
- Staffing
- Communications
- Data and information
- Workload Management
- Mental Model
- Physical and Mental Stress
- Commander Location
- Shared sense making
- Goals and Mission
- Command Support
- Human Factors
- Attention Management
