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Situational Awareness COPY Flashcards

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The success of the incident depends upon, in part, on

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Responders being able to make good decisions under stress

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The first step in understanding how to improve your emergency incident decision making skills

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Understand how quality decisions are made

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The right question to ask when trying to learn about how things go wrong is

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Why did it makes sense to them

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What were the responders ________ when things went wrong

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Trying to accomplish

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What was the ______ of the incident and what _____ were the responders playing when things went wrong

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Overall mission, role

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What task or objective were first responders focused on that prevented them from seeing the

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Bad outcome on the horizon

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Honor the fallen by

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Asking the hard questions

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The traditional decision making process also called

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Analytical decision making process

Rational decision making process

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Step 1 of the Traditional Decision making process

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Define the problem

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Step 2 of the Traditional Decision making process

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Identify the decision making criteria

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Step 3 of the Traditional Decision making process

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Allocate weights to the criteria

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Step 4 of the Traditional Decision making process

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Develop alternatives for solving the problem

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Step 5 of the Traditional Decision making process

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Evaluate each alternative based on weighted criteria

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Step 6 of the Traditional Decision making process

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Select the best alternative (making the decision, i.e. the easiest step)

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Step 7 of the Traditional Decision making process

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Evaluate the effectiveness of the action that was taken

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Of all the steps (in the Traditional Decision making process) which one should the easiest

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Step 6, making the decision

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17
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Process of Recognition Primed Decision Making was first discovered by

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Gary Klein

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18
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For commanders to successfully use RPDM they must have a level of ____ to draw upon

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Expertise

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Another advantage of having an expert over a novice is their ability to process and comprehend _____ clues and cues

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Negative

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20
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Stress triggers a reaction in the

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Hypothalamus

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21
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The only hope you have in reducing the impact of stress is to

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Reduce the number of chemicals (released into your body)

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Reducing your stress can be accomplished using _____ like controlled _____

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Stress calming techniques, breathing

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Making _____ is one of the hallmark qualities of a good public safety responders

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Rapid decisions under stress

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Intuition, triggered by stress, can lead to the often-referenced ______, a primal decision process

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Gut feelings

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Working memory is horribly vulnerable to ____ if the data is not quickly passed along to long term memory

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Degradation

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26
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When your brain is searching the images for a solution, the imagines your brain identifies it likely will not be

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An exact match

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_____ allows you to form subconscious pattern matches without awareness

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Tacit knowledge

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Your brain is efficient at taking pieces of a puzzle and putting them together correctly, this is called

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Chunking

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If a commander is unable or unwilling to make a decision because of _______, there’s a risk the responders may grow impatient and engage in _____.

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Incomplete information, freelancing

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30
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RPD requirement #1

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Situational awareness

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RPD requirement #2

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Tacit knowledge

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RPD requirement #3

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Mental modeling (display future results, making predictions)

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RPD requirement #4

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Self confidence

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34
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Another, less than obvious impact on one’s ability to pay attention is

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Multitasking

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_____ described situational awareness as being aware of what is happening around you and understanding what that information means to you now and in the future

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Endsley

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36
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Level 1 Situational Awareness

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Occurs when the decision maker captures the CLUES and CUES

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The 2nd phase in Endsley’s 3 levels

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Level 2 situational awareness: Comprehension phase

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Level 3 situational awareness (Endsley)

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Projection: make assumptions and predictions about future events

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39
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All three levels of situational awareness are

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Interdependent

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40
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It takes, on average, _____ years of regular and routine acquisition of knowledge and skill practice to develop _____ level knowledge and performance if a student is in an environment of learning and/or practice ____ hours a day______ days a week

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10, Expert, 2, 5

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41
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First level of the competency progression is

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Unconscious incompetence

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42
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Four levels of competency progression

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Unconscious incompetence
Conscious incompetence
Conscious competence
Unconscious competence

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43
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Number of barriers and categories

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116 barriers
12 categories

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44
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The 12 situational awareness barrier categories

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Staffing
Communication
Data and info management
Workload management
Mental models
Physical and mental stress
Commander location
Shared sense making
Goals and mission
Command support
Human factors
Attention management

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45
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Any responder not feeling some stress at a scene is either operating at a very ____ incident, or they are ___________ all that can go wrong

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Minor
Not grounded in the reality of

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46
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When under stress, your brain may revert to using ____ decision making processes

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Intuitive

47
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Stress from taking _____ narrows attention and affects situational awareness

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Excessive risk

48
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There is a third option (with understaffing)

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Don’t engage an inexperienced crews in a high risk operation

49
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The likelihood of incident scene casualties is vastly reduced when a decision is made not to engage in high risk operations because of the ____ or _____ of the crew

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Quality. Quantity

50
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_____ as a barrier to situational awareness, may be a finding unique to public safety responders

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Staffing

51
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_____ is an issue universal to every domain where high risk, high consequence, high stress decisions are made

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Communication

52
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The human brain cannot ____ thr act of listening

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Multi-task

53
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In the aftermath of catastrophic events, Emergency scene commanders often confide that they were affected by an excessive ____ or poor management of their ___

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Workload, workload

54
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Pilot example

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Stay hands off and in command

55
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Major themes of workload management

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Biologically impossible to multi task
Hands off, in command

56
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Human factors barriers Loss of Focus example

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Woman in church: seeing what she was looking for

57
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Percentages to gather:

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Good rule of thumb: 30-70%
Colin Powell: 40-70%

58
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False sense that this incident is like all others where circumstances have been similar

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Bias of confidence

59
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A confident commander can be good. Under-confident can be _____, Over confident can be ____

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Dangerous, deadly

60
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The more routine or mundane an emergency call may appear, the greater the potential for responders to become

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Complacent

61
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Command support is a barrier that has direct connection to

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Staffing levels

62
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There are some tools responders can use to help manage memory and workload, namely

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Checklists and worksheets

63
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Memory of everything you have done

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Retrospective memory

64
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Memory of everything you have yet to do

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Prospective memory

65
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Worksheets help ___ memory

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Retrospective

66
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Checklists help you manage _____ memory

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Prospective

67
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Of the two types of memory, ____ is more fragile under stress

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Prospective

68
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Ego can result in ____ incident leadership

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Kamikaze

69
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If responders are given the latitude to inject their ___ or ____ into how routine work tasks should be accomplished, supervisors may expect to see independent action by responders (freelancing)

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Opinions, personal preferences

70
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Occurs when an organization makes operational or safety mistakes, often small and seemingly harmless, repetitively over a period of time without consequence

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Error creep

71
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Your minds point of reference of what is happening now and what’s going to happen in the future

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Mental models

72
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Situational awareness requires three things of the decision maker

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Conscious
Present
Scanning

73
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Laws of work interruption the first

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Make more mistakes

74
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Second law of work interruption

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Miss more clues and cues

75
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Third law of work interruption

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Longer to complete the task

76
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Fourth law of work interruption

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Lose track of work performed prior to the interruption

77
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There are 2 strategies that can help you manage the impact of being overwhelmed with information

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Writing notes
Using checklists

78
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This conscious awareness of your situational awareness has a name:

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META-AWARENESSSSSSS!!!!

79
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Lessons for the First Responders: 1
Responders with poor situational awareness can

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still have good outcome, if only by luck

80
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Second lesson for 1st responder
Decisions made with good situational awareness can

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still have a bad outcome

81
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Lesson 3 of the lessons for first responders
Maintaining situational awareness requires ___, ___, and ___ commitment to paying attention.

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PHYSICAL, MENTAL, and EMOTIONAL

82
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Lessons for first responders: 4
What you should pay attention to is

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not always intuitive or obvious

83
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Lessons for first responders the 5th one
Responders rarely realize they’re losing their ___ until it’s too late

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situational awareness

84
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6: lessons for first responders
It’s critically important to be able to form mental models of both

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The past and the future

85
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Red Flag #1 Failing to process the meaning of

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clues and cues

86
Q

Each type of emergency has its own list of __ to ___ of the most important critical clues. For a structure fire, one of the most important clues is the ___.

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5-7, smoke

87
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Red Flag #2 Underestimating the ___ of the incident

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Speed

88
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Red Flag #3 overestimating the ____ of the personnel

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Abilties

89
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Red Flag #4 feeling pressure to take ____ without considering the risk and benefit

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Heroic action

90
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Red Flag #5 Focusing on ____ or trying to process too much information

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The wrong things

91
Q

Best Practise #1, ____ your incoming information

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Prioritize

92
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Subjects under stress can remember __ pieces of unrelated information

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5

93
Q

____, not fire, is the prediction of the future

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Smoke

94
Q

4 attributes of ___ that serve as the primer for Level 3 situational awareness

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Smoke-Color, volume, velocity, density

95
Q

Critical data for residential dwelling fire decision making

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  1. Smoke & fire
  2. Construction & decomposition
  3. Speed
  4. Realistic assessment of savable lives
96
Q

Brannigan’s quote on building behavior following the laws of ____

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Physics
“Every building has a common enemy and that enemy is GRAVITY”

97
Q

First window of opportunity is for the ___.
Second window of opportunity is for the ___.
Third window of opportunity is for the ___.

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Civilian
Responder
Building

98
Q

Skin melts at

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160°

99
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Best practise #2. Set the strategy and tactics band on the ___ and ____ of your resources

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Quality, quantity

100
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Best Practise #3, never miss radio communications from your ____

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Most at risk personnel

101
Q

Missed radio traffic from at risk personnel qualifies as a

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Near miss event

102
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Best practise #4, be strategic when choosing ___ for command

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Location

103
Q

___ is the essence or the high level, broad concept of something

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Gist

104
Q

Best practise #5 Call a ___

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Personal time out

105
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Best Practise #6, use a

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Command team

106
Q

Subconscious cognitive tasks

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“What am I supposed to be doing?”

107
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Muscle memory tasks

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“How am I supposed to do this?”

108
Q

Copilots: PF, PNF

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Pilot flying the plane
Pilot not flying the plane

109
Q

Best Practise #7, control your ___ and ____

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Distractions. Interruptions

110
Q

Best Practise #8, Develop and maintain a strong

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command presence

111
Q

Having a strong command presence means having the ability to hold your ____ in check

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Emotions

112
Q

Best practise #9, Develop and train to _____ but build resiliency into training programs

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Scripted procedures

113
Q

Best Practise #10, accelerate your command knowledge and

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Expertise

114
Q

Research has further shown that as mamy as ____ of program attendees may forget as much as ___ of whay they learned within the first three hours following an instructional program

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90%, 60%

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