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Mental Management of Emergencies

Fifty Ways to Kill a First Responder

Training for Failure

Firefighter Safety: Mistakes & Best Practices

Hoarder Homes: Piles of Hazards for Firefighters

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Mental Management of Emergencies:
Improving first responder situational awareness
and decision making under stress

Created and presented by Dr. Richard B. Gasaway, Fire Chief (ret.)

4.5 hours of content on 3 DVDs

Program Description: This 3 DVD series is designed to get first responders “into the loop” and improve your understanding of high-risk, high consequence decision making. This program reveals secrets hospitals, airlines, NASA and the Department of Defense know about how to use situational awareness to improve decision making under stress.

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Fifty Ways to Kill a First Responder:
Improving Emergency Services
Situational Awareness

Created and presented by Dr. Richard B. Gasaway, Fire Chief (ret.)

3.5 hours of content on 3 DVDs

DVD 1: Understanding decision making and situational awareness

DVD 2: Understanding the barriers that challenge situational awareness

DVD 3: Best practices and lessons learned to improve situational awareness

Program Description: This 3 DVD set is Dr. Gasaway’s research come-to-life in a lively recorded classroom presentation. This powerful program has been called “eye opening” and “a wake up call” by thousands of program attendees. The program has been presented (live) at prestigious conferences throughout the United States, Canada, The United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Australia. Here’s your opportunity to proactively and profoundly improve the situational awareness of your first response team.

Training for Failure:
Understanding why some first responder

Created and presented by: Dr. Richard B. Gasaway, Fire Chief (ret.)

When first responders do seemingly insane things at emergency scenes there is never a shortage of peers waiting to pass judgment and to criticize. It is very easy to be the judge and jury of flawed performance after the fact. However, no amount of judgment will result in learning from the mistakes.

This program will offer an eye-opening view into how responders are being trained to fail, why those who are training them don’t know they’re doing it and how to fix the problem.

Part 1 of the program shares powerful lessons on how our brains learn and remember, including:

- Two memory systems used in learning

- The role of repetition during the initial phases of learning

- Memory rehearsal in long-term memory formation and recall

- The use of routines

- How memory prompts can aid learning and recall

- Three neurotransmitters that aid memory formation and recall

- Emotions

- The role of subconscious memory and your “magic knowledge”

- How habits serve as assets and liabilities

- The importance of visual learning and the role of mirror neurons

- The brain’s struggle to separate fact from vividly imagined fiction

Part 2 shares specific examples of how police, fire and EMS responders are being trained to fail and provides solutions for correcting the problems.

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