Name: How Smart Responders Use REAL Situational Awareness to Improve Safety
Start: 2024-06-25T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-06-25T21:00:00-05:00
Location: 4203 Montdale Park Drive, Valparaiso, IN, United States, Indiana 46383

Program Descriptions
How Smart Responders Use REAL Situational Awareness to Improve Safety
Most first responders know, intuitively, that strong situational awareness is an important aspect of incident scene safety. However, many do not understand what situational awareness is, how it is developed and how it can erode while working in a high risk, high consequence environment. This keynote presentation provides attendees with a working definition for situational awareness and explains how it is developed. Some of the barriers flawing situational awareness will be shared.
About Dr. Gasaway
Dr. Richard B. Gasaway is widely considered a trusted authority on human factors, situational awareness and the high-risk decision making processes used in high-stress, high consequence work environments.
He served 33 years on the front lines as a firefighter, EMT-Paramedic, company officer, training officer, fire chief and emergency incident commander. His doctoral research included the study of cognitive neuroscience to understand how human factors flaw situational awareness and impact high-risk decision making under stress.
As the President of Situational Awareness Matters, Dr. Gasaway leads a team of expert instructors and thought leaders who train and consult worldwide. Dr. Gasaway has authored 7 books on situational awareness and high-risk decision making and his training programs have been delivered to more than 100,000 participants worldwide.
Hundreds of public safety agencies have relied on the Situational Awareness Matters team to help improve their emergency scene safety and high-risk decision making, including the New York City Fire Department’s Incident Management Team and first responders from England, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
As a result of his work, fire chiefs, operations chiefs and safety officers often share with him their personnel make better decisions at high-stress, high-consequence, time-compressed emergency scenes.