Part 2 ( Barriers to Commander Situational Awareness) Chapter 12: Command Support Flashcards
Having command Aids or command support greatly improves SA and _______
incident safety
One of the most valuable lessons the author derived from his research was gaining the intense understanding that stress, attention management, and workload management had on the incident _____ and company _____
commander, officers
The authors research revealed that the commanders barriers to SA would ave been reduced if they would have had a second person to serve as an
aide, advisor, or assitant
FF routinely work in teams and share the workload and to look out for each other. This concept needs to be extended to the ______ positions as well. The cognitive demands on a commander can easily exceed the capacity of one person
IC
Commanders who are _____ to the incident are able to dedicate their complete cognitive attention to the dispatch information and radio traffic. This is considered a luxury in some departments. When commanders drive themselves to an incident, much of their cognitive capacity is going to be consumed by the act of driving
chauffeured
Supervising and incident scene ___ can cause the supervisor to become angry or frustrated which triggers even more barriers to SA
alone
Using _____ and _____ to help manage the workload is a SA best practice. They help manage your memory. They are especially helpful if an aid scribe takes on this task so the IC can focus on the scene
checklists and worksheets
As it relates to your memory, you essentially have two types that you want to manage. They are
retrospective and prospective
The memory of everything you have already done or all that has happened best describes :
Retrospective Memory
The memory of everything you have yet to do best describes
prospective memory
Worksheets best help you with _____ memory
retrospective memory
Checklists best help you with ____ memory
prospective memory
Of the two types of memory, your _______ memory is more fragile under stress.
prospective
