Situational awareness is more complex than simply noticing what is happening around you. An emergency responder must capture clues and cues in the emergency environment, make sense of the information, and predict what will happen next.
In Situational Awareness for Emergency Response, Richard Gasaway establishes the foundation of decision making and the role of situational awareness in high-risk public safety environments. He explains his original research on command decisions and the barriers that challenge a commander's situational awareness, and offers lessons learned and best practices that can assist responders in preventing or overcoming the situational awareness barriers.
Situational Awareness for Emergency Response is an ideal resource for incident commanders, line personnel who make high-stress decisions, and students learning to develop and maintain situational awareness.
Features and benefits:
Realise how decisions are made in high-stress, high-consequence, and time-compressed situations
Understand situational awareness and its role in making good and bad decisions
Identify barriers that challenge a commander's situational awareness
Improve your decision making with the lessons learned and recommended best practices
Use the 25-point checklist as an incident evaluation tool to improve safety
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-59370-307-3 (9781593703073)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Richard B. Gasaway, PhD, has served more than 30 years as a public safety professional in six emergency service organisations. Before retiring in 2009, he held the positions of firefighter, EMT-paramedic, lieutenant, captain, training officer, assistant chief and fire chief. In addition to his lifelong commitment of service to others, Dr. Gasaway has a second passion: understanding how the brain works and relaying those lessons in meaningful ways for the benefit of first responders. He is widely considered to be one of the nation's foremost authorities on first responder decision making and situational awareness under stress. His programmes on situational awareness and decision making have been presented more than 2,500 times to some 30,000 first responders and business professionals worldwide. He has contributed to more than 350 journal and website articles, books, and book chapters on the topics of first responder leadership and safety.
